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Societally Acceptable Termination of Human life:

We assume - presumably even Oodain - that the conditions laid down by state and professions will be different from those for most nonhuman species.

But what will the assembly consider reasonable?

You do mean killing, right? Are we talking practical, like self defense, or legal, like the death penalty? I can comment either way, but I'd hate to waste time if I'm not sure what exactly you're asking.

I am talking all socially approved or mandated killing. No need to talk about abortion, that is overtalked as it is. But everything else - legal death penalty, shooting intruders, putting grandpapa to sleep, "assisted suicide", unassisted suicide, suicide pacts, euthanizing the unfit and those with inadequate "quality of life", lotteries to reduce the population [frequent in sci fi], mandatory retirement from life, and whatever other category occurs.

I will say right away I do not have answers meself - aside from a strong sense of the value of human life even in an inhuman world, i have historically had problems with putting pets down, disposing of vermin, and eliminating plants.

Though I swill without thinking swat a mosquito.