A lot of sentiment on the CG threads is that brain damage is the end of the world, that brain damaged people have no quality of life and that they'd not want their children to have brain damage.
No, it isn't, Bishop. There, as you would expect with the number of people contributing, differing views. Those who tend to agree with the hospital position tend towards the view that catastrophic and irreversible brain damage in a terminally ill child such that he is blind, deaf, paralysed, in pain, oedematous and unable to breathe is such that nature should be allowed to take its course. Its the kind of decision that is being made by doctors the world over every day. How is it disablist? A number of those posting are parents who have had to take precisely that decision. Are they disablist?
The posts are very definite that there is no hope. This is mainly based on media coverage
Again, no, that is not the case. There has been extensive discussion of the evidence, including what is in the judgments and the statistics quoted by Dr Hirano: that comes from direct quotes of what he said in court, not media coverage.
But who are we (the collective we) to decide in a general way where that line is drawn?
No-one on that thread is purporting to make that decision. The general consensus is that it should be left to the judge, who has all the relevant information. That doesn't stop discussion of developments and a number of very relevant issues around the case, not least the role of social media.