This was also my first thought in defense and to spot my hypocrisy. I spent many a minute going back and forth why am I judging a brain that lived a life and is “dead” more the the potential of a life, stem cell research, abortion in general and I gotta admit it was a invoking thought experiment.

I’m still on the acceptance side of abortion, stem cell research and other things like human cloning. They advance science, reduce human suffering - yes I get abortion doesn’t fit there exactly but it should be the mothers/parents right to ave access to abortion. All very political and highly debatable points today.

I understand if I accept that, what’s accepting experimentation on a brain dead brain - it should be a no brainer.

Easier because it’s just an artifact of a person that’s deceased but it is easy to invoke imagery in my own brain of an eternal torture chamber, someone’s consciousness locked away never recoverable or removable undergoing this amount of pain, but also is it pain if it can’t feel it?

The bodies other organs, it’s easy to dismiss as collections of cells, etc but: the brain just makes it harder to justify because it is the organ we use to interpret the world and imagining a world of pain and wondering what if that is the layer we are in now… is just scary.

Is it, though?