Interestingly, Beth at My Vast Rightwing Conspiracy has a many part piece from the Village Voice and Nat Hentoff here. It’s a frightening illustration of where we’re headed with this euthanasia “test case”.
If the courts finally permit the husband of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo to continue to press for her death by starvation—by again removing her feeding tube—more of the barriers to killing may come down in other states. So this isn’t only about Terri Schiavo. It could be about you.
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Barriers to killing? We have the death penalty, guns galore, we love dropping bombs on other countries and our economic and environmental policies are killing poor people. What barriers? Besides, you can’t kill someone who is already dead. If God wants Terri alive, He’ll perform a miracle after the tube comes out…or don’t you trust God?
Indeed, JC — and if Christ were the son of God he would have come down from the cross.
I’m neither manichean nor do I wish to see life in terms of good and evil, but your comments lead me to say “evil can never create, and it only repeats itself.”
On that — We’re killing poor people with our environmental policies? Not as many as we’d be killing if we signed the Kioto protocol. We’re dropping bombs on people? Yes, so we can remove the vultures who were slowly starving them to death and engineering other deaths.
BUT you are right about the culture of death already being all around us. ALREADY it is viewed as okay of dispose of someone because they are inconvenient — a baby in the womb or someone whose life is “not worth living.”
We are treading in the footsteps of pre-Nazi Germany and it is a scary path to follow.
We might, at that, need a miracle to stop us going there again. Probably nothing as dramatic as Terri suddenly being able to eat — oh, it would be nice, but why should G-d come down from heaven to solve a problem created by men — but a measure of grace, at any rate.
Sod off, swampy.
I think JC set the record for the most number of ridiculous, unsubstantiated, and inprovable allegations in the shortest post in the history of your site, Cao.
Maybe we can give him the “Moonbat of the Month” prize…
JC: You’re an idiot. Get educated about people with disabilities. They are human beings who have feelings, they think, act, hurt, laugh-just like you, I think like you anyway. You just posted one of the dumbest comments I have ever read.
Hey Portia, master of culture and worldly affairs, it’s Kyoto, not Kioto. I tend not to trust a person’s opinion of a policy if they can’t spell it…
Care to chime in on the ‘Deth Penalty’ or the ‘Irack War’?
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