What level of cognitive ability does someone need to be limited to (permanently, with no hope of cure) before you're ok with "pulling the plug" or "putting them down"?
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I'm not sure cognitive ability is a reasonable criterion.
I had one of pets euthanized when his illness made him suffer. But even before the illness he was always incurably dumber than a 2 year old, and I wouldn't put them down just because of that.
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yeah, but I think it's waaaaaaay less resource intensive to care for an idiot pet than it is a child
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The value of human life depends more on the ability to process positive and negative feelings, rather than intelligence.
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I don't know what 'valuable' means
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Seriously? You're asking for everyone's personal opinion on "at what point do you define life is no longer life by it's own definition". Interesting...
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There is a difference between Never and Total Vegetable. My feeling is that if there is no chance of consciousness and no life without mechanical assistance the not providing that assistance is a reasonable choice for those who would be responsible for care.
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"ability of 0-12 month old" seems strikingly absent. (1-year-olds have a lot going on already!)