Child cancer is not the same as lacking a cerebral cortex. For one child cancer is not remotely a death sentence, there is every possibility of living a full, happy life for most types.
Lacking a cerebral cortex at birth doesn't present any chance of recovery, this isn't even long odds, its an absolute certainty, barring some distant future sci-fi medical technology bullshit anyway, and I'm talking the kind of shit that would make us effectively immortal. And the life your mindless body will live will be neither long nor full and it will be physically incapable of complex emotions like happiness.
Child cancer is bum luck
Catastrophic failure of the CNS to develop is 100% fucked.
Child cancer is not the same as lacking a cerebral cortex. For one child cancer is not remotely a death sentence, there is every possibility of living a full, happy life for most types.
Lacking a cerebral cortex at birth doesn't present any chance of recovery, this isn't even long odds, its an absolute certainty, barring some distant future sci-fi medical technology bullshit anyway, and I'm talking the kind of shit that would make us effectively immortal. And the life your mindless body will live will be neither long nor full and it will be physically incapable of complex emotions like happiness.
Child cancer is bum luck
Catastrophic failure of the CNS to develop is 100% fucked.