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To: DesertRhino
A right to die will immediately turn into a duty to do so.

A "right" to anything implies that someone, somewhere has a duty to provide it whether it is society, a physician, someone in "healthcare" other than a physician, or someone outside of healthcare.

There can never be a "right" to die because it implies a duty of someone else to kill that person.

If a person decides to commit suicide because of a medical condition, nothing stops that person from carrying out that desire without the intervention of society. The moral implications then fall to the person committing the act.

Morally, there should be no legal protection for anyone in healthcare for materially assisting someone committing suicide.

6 posted on 10/27/2016 8:40:27 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: johniegrad

Now see - there’s that corruption of the language again.

The left has made the word ‘right’ out to be a provision from somewhere.

Rights are NOT provided. They are inherent in our existence. We are born with rights. They are not given to us by the Constitution or the government in any way.

Therefore there cannot be any right that enforces itself upon another to provide as it would immediately come into conflict with another persons rights.


14 posted on 10/27/2016 9:03:49 AM PDT by reed13k
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