This particular (and horrific) event brings out the core of people. You can see exactly how a person is really built. In fact, I'd suggest that if anyone here is considering marriage that this is a perfect way to see if you and someone else are compatible.
The number of people that don't grasp basic right and wrong is just stunning to me. I used to think that the worse thing I run across on rare occasion is someone who's racist. Which is especially bad when it's someone you have known for a long time. You are chatting along and they suddenly turn into someone you have never seen before and they say the "N" word. What? No! No! No! Oh geesh. They are brain dead. Darn! So much for that "friend".
This is worse. When someone says "the courts said so" or "it's a personal thing". Or whatever they can spout to justify starving a person to death. All I can think of is how INSANE that is. Justifying killing that woman when her family, especially her mother, wants to take care of her. Who are these people that think this is "right". Please move them somewhere where they can be all together. Far away from me and my family.
I just expected that in this country if you told 10 people "hey, they are going to starve this woman to death" that all 10 would have a fit. But that's not the case. Scary.
When she dies decent people will never ever look at the people we elect to office or anyone in the judicial branch the same again. Look what America has come to.
We're of like mind. Some of us see that this is the first small step towards forced euthanasia. That's how things like this work -- little baby steps until the unthinking sheep accept it as normal to do away with the weak and infirm. They won't wake up until their HMO tells them it's not cost effective to treat their aged parents, or sick child, or chronically ill spouse, and they will be moved to a hospice to be kept comfortable until the end.