“and for society as well”
Society and legal protection have nothing to do with it. That is one of the most deplorable parts of the ACA. The death squads that sit in hiding that make decisions based upon finances and not the life involved.
If you believe life is sacred, and should be lived to the fullest, then I hope you never have to make the decision to allow a person that no longer lives it with nothing more than a few brain waves with no thought, no love, no laughter, no dreams, no connection to anybody or anything, and no future. If that’s living, then your and my definition are opposite. Life has to grow and get stronger. His can’t happen unless by one of ‘god’s miracles, he is spared this type of hell on earth. I don’t call that living. I call that existing. Rocks exist.
And yes I have been on that battlefield with the bodies of fallen soldiers. You call them young men. I call them fallen Americans that stood up for what they believe in and committed their all for their stand. And they didn’t do it for a few people they know. They did it for this entire country and no one can respect them enough. But they knew the possibilities when they walked into the recruiter’s office. They knew there was a possibility they were going to walk in front of a bullet. But a baby with brain damage, and again we don’t know the extent, may not know anything ever. He didn’t make that decision. God did. So if you are going to question anyone’s opinion on whether he should be allowed to pass, then why not question why he was placed in that situation to begin with? I don’t have that answer. I just know it exists and someone or thing greater than I has it. I can only answer for me.
rwood
You carefully couch your words to make them seem innocuous, sort of like adding artificial flavoring to poison. Basically, you are saying "God did this to the baby so it's His fault". And you lie that you are answering only for yourself. If you only applied this to yourself, you would not be arguing with others, stating clearly that the only life worth living is one with some arbitrary list of standards and levels of enjoyment, abilities and mental capacity that you, in your all knowingness, regard as making a human life worthy enough to live. And simultaneously you read minds and you know exactly what others are experiencing in their hearts, and they don't measure up to the "life worth living" standards.