Interestingly, the
Catholic Church doesn't allow quality of life arguments to supercede
quantity of life. This is the baseboard in their position against
abortion and the
death penalty.
By most standards a fetus has a fairly low quality of life, and you can get a Catholic to admit that. But the presence of any life --any quantifiable human existance -- precludes its killing.
Throwing a prisoner in a hole forever as opposed to just offing them... same difference. You can smack the hell out of somebody's quality of life, but keep 'em in the head count.
I went to Catholic School for this?