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To: Winged Hussar; All
I've been jumping around on this topic this am, doing a little reseach. Somewhere, I cannot remember where (and I retraced me steps as best I could) somebody posted this (paraphrase):
They don't even feel the elderly are worthy of the right to choose suicide; they want to make that decision for them
That was a thought-provoking point to me, and later in my hopping around I came across this:
One such theorist, Adolf Jost, issued an early call for direct medical killing in a book published in 1895 and significantly entitled “The Right to Death” (Das Recht auf den Tod). Jost argued that control over the death of the individual must ultimately belong to the social organism, the state. This concept is in direct opposition to the Anglo-American tradition of euthanasia, which emphasizes the individual’s “right to die” or “right to death” or “right to his or her own death,” as the ultimate human claim. In contrast, Jost was pointing to the state’s right to kill. While he spoke of compassion and relief of suffering of the incurably ill, his focus was mainly on the health of the Volk and the state. He pointed out that the state already exercises those “rights” in war, where thousands of individuals are sacrificed for the good of the state. Ultimately the argument was biological: “The rights to death [are] the key to the fitness of life.” The state must own death — must kill — in order to keep the social organism alive and healthy.²*
from here:http://www.mazal.org/Lifton/LiftonT046.htm

So, whatever you do, don't call the Obama administration Nazi, even though it's plagiurizing the Nazi Manual.

23 posted on 08/14/2009 7:44:49 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (STOP OBAMA NOW.)
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To: the invisib1e hand

See you have been doing some research, I am in a discussion with a liberal and cannot find who said that a child is not a person until 2 years of age, was it Dr. Emanuel or was it the Science Czar Holdren?
Thanks.


24 posted on 08/18/2009 1:51:16 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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