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2019-03-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

How Assisted Suicide Creates A Cascade Of Death After It Becomes Legal

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-26 08:46|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 ...next, cannibalism! (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-26 09:36|| 2019-03-26 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Soylent Green is people!

Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-26 09:52|| 2019-03-26 09:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Articles like these do not help the cause of stopping assisted suicide. I personally would be fully in favor of legalizing this practice... in a world where the government had no say in a person's end of life care. But when they have almost all of the say, this is wrong on every level. The government will, and has, used these laws to kill people, both for political reason, and for more general social engineering reasons.

But appealing to faulty moral arguments (and spending the front paragraphs talking about abortion instead of the actual subject of the body of the article) just makes the article less convincing. Abortion is murder, through and through. There is no system where it is okay. But if a person decides by themselves, in a healthy state of mind, there are states of mind or body they don't want to live through, I really have no problem with that. Making it morally equivalent makes people like me reflexively dislike the article, even though the cause is a good one.

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-03-26 19:15|| 2019-03-26 19:15|| Front Page Top

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