Slaughter Or The Second Chance At A New Life Analysis
Manslaughter or the Second chance at a New Life?
The story in which a child is in need of a brain transfer brings about an issue surrounding one's identity. In this story, Harry Vladek has a very difficult decision to make in regards to the health of his son, Tommy. Tommy has a very serious brain problem thus, he is basically left brain died with fully healthy and functional body. Harry, not wanting let go of his son, tries everything, in terms of trying to help his son, and finally comes across Dr. Nicholson, a brain surgeon who believes that by putting a new brain in Tommy, he fixes Tommy’s brain problem, but this whole procedure isn’t set in stone.
There are many more aspects than just the brain transfer in itself, that comes into play. …show more content…
Similarity means that two things resemble each other while, identity means there is only one thing involved. For example, twins cannot be identical simply because calling the twins identical is the same as saying that only one person exists, when in reality there are actually two people that exist. Instead, we would say that these twins resemble each other a lot, therefore they have strong similarities, not identities. (2)Some philosophers say that from the moment we are born, to the moment we die, we are never identical as we are always changing. We have new: thoughts, experiences, and memories every minute, and we even change physically. So yes, they are right, we constantly change similarities, but we are still essentially the same person, as we still have the same personal …show more content…
This theory plays a very large part in my decision of deciding in whether Tommy or Sam survives the operation. Yes, our mental life involves different episodes of thinking, hoping, remembering, reminiscing, missing, believing and so forth, but the memory theory builds up the personal identity from relations with these episodes. (4)If I take all the thoughts in my mind right now and call them Fred, and then take all the thought from my mind a few seconds ago and call them Frank, then ask you to do the same thing with the contents of your mind and call them Mary and Martha, we both know that Frank and Fred are stages of one person and that Mary and Martha are stages of another person. The relation between Frank and Fred on one hand, and Mary and Martha, on the other hand, is that Frank and Fred belong to one body and Mary and Martha to another. In terms of the memory theory, Frank and Fred have many overlapping memories and so do Mary and Martha, but, Frank and Fred don't share any memories with Mary and Martha thus, none of them will have any memories overlapping each other, as everyone's memories are their
The story in which a child is in need of a brain transfer brings about an issue surrounding one's identity. In this story, Harry Vladek has a very difficult decision to make in regards to the health of his son, Tommy. Tommy has a very serious brain problem thus, he is basically left brain died with fully healthy and functional body. Harry, not wanting let go of his son, tries everything, in terms of trying to help his son, and finally comes across Dr. Nicholson, a brain surgeon who believes that by putting a new brain in Tommy, he fixes Tommy’s brain problem, but this whole procedure isn’t set in stone.
There are many more aspects than just the brain transfer in itself, that comes into play. …show more content…
Similarity means that two things resemble each other while, identity means there is only one thing involved. For example, twins cannot be identical simply because calling the twins identical is the same as saying that only one person exists, when in reality there are actually two people that exist. Instead, we would say that these twins resemble each other a lot, therefore they have strong similarities, not identities. (2)Some philosophers say that from the moment we are born, to the moment we die, we are never identical as we are always changing. We have new: thoughts, experiences, and memories every minute, and we even change physically. So yes, they are right, we constantly change similarities, but we are still essentially the same person, as we still have the same personal …show more content…
This theory plays a very large part in my decision of deciding in whether Tommy or Sam survives the operation. Yes, our mental life involves different episodes of thinking, hoping, remembering, reminiscing, missing, believing and so forth, but the memory theory builds up the personal identity from relations with these episodes. (4)If I take all the thoughts in my mind right now and call them Fred, and then take all the thought from my mind a few seconds ago and call them Frank, then ask you to do the same thing with the contents of your mind and call them Mary and Martha, we both know that Frank and Fred are stages of one person and that Mary and Martha are stages of another person. The relation between Frank and Fred on one hand, and Mary and Martha, on the other hand, is that Frank and Fred belong to one body and Mary and Martha to another. In terms of the memory theory, Frank and Fred have many overlapping memories and so do Mary and Martha, but, Frank and Fred don't share any memories with Mary and Martha thus, none of them will have any memories overlapping each other, as everyone's memories are their