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You might want to put some kind of warning before the picture of the crushed baby head. Wasn't ready for that!

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1) Certain actions reveal things about the actor that cause us to have lower trust in them.

2) Certain actions alter the psychology of the actor to make them less trustworthy.

These things can be independent of the actual effect of the action. For instance, let us say that somebody gets a realistic doll of a woman, then engages in sado-masochistic sexual acts with them and ritualistic torture murder. The doll is even less alive than your theoretical brain dead body, but the effect is fairly similar. You would never trust such a person, regardless of whether their action caused "harm" (it likely harms their psyche).

To be totally honest, if I didn't think abortion had such strong connotations for #1 and #2 I wouldn't be as offended by it. I would probably put it in the same category as birth control. But it clearly effects #1 and #2 in a way birth control does not.

P.S. Your brain dead scenario plays out in "Kill Bill". The protagonists violently murders the assailants.

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