Religious participants, however, continued to ascribe less mind to the irretrievably unconscious David than they did to his buried corpse (-1.57 and 0.59).
That would suggest they should be supporting of euthanizing an irretrievably unconscious person so as to restore their mental capacities.
That would unquestionably activate their belief that this person is still alive and they would consider such an action to be murder. You could play their two beliefs “this person is alive → don’t murder them” and “at least as a soul instead of a vegetative patient this person would have some autonomy” off against each other but they would most likely back out of the conversation before any serious mind-changing happens.
That would suggest they should be supporting of euthanizing an irretrievably unconscious person so as to restore their mental capacities.
That would unquestionably activate their belief that this person is still alive and they would consider such an action to be murder. You could play their two beliefs “this person is alive → don’t murder them” and “at least as a soul instead of a vegetative patient this person would have some autonomy” off against each other but they would most likely back out of the conversation before any serious mind-changing happens.