Posted on 12/05/2014 11:53:53 AM PST by wagglebee
"Morally important"? What does this monster know about morality?
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The last days are upon us and Jesus is coming very soon.
Those who refuse Christ’s forgiveness will be forced to drink blood as a judgment for their bloody deeds (Rev 16:6).
That argument might work for putting down sociopaths.
Since dignity is another word for self-respect, this ‘ethicist’ is saying the disabled have no right to self-respect, because their appearance makes them unattractive. But that reveals his own shallow values, judging a human being on the basis of their physical appearance alone.
He’s the one with a problem.
Mark my word, the day will come when the government can and will refuse healthcare for disabled babies based on the liberal’s definition of desirability.
He believes he is God, as all morally corrupt people do.
Woe to those who call good evil and evil good.
Not all sociopaths become violent criminals. Some of them become socialized just fine and function perfectly well in society.
You can't look at *any* baby and make any kind of prognostication about his/her future.
That sounds like one of Uncle Adolf H’s utterance’s.
I once read a science fiction novel in which a disabled man was moving around in public, and a young woman walked by him, eating ice cream. She kept commenting how his appearance disturbed her and that it was ruining her enjoyment of the ice cream.
Not long after, she complained to her boss that none of the suicide precipitation techniques was working, and sought advice on what she should do.
Apparently, her job was to find non-perfect people and try to encourage them to commit suicide by making disparaging remarks.
I don't remember what the book was, although I seem to recall that it was something by Larry Niven--I could be wrong.
I long for the days when this monster would be labeled as such and shunned by all good men and women of conscience.
It is the height of hubris for any human being to say that human dignity demands the death of an innocent person. What is to keep someone else from turning the tables on a person who says something like that?
There are times when justice would seem to demand a death of a guilty person. There are times that self-defense or defense of another would seem to demand a death of the threatening person. I struggle to imagine any other situation that demands a death of another human being which would be justifiable much less proclaimed a public good.
God help us.
The “Master Race” was all about this brand of “human dignity”.
“Don’t make me have to look at people who make me uncomfortable.”
“That sounds like one of Uncle Adolf Hs utterances.”
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The first known case of the application of this now-acceptable proposal concerned “Baby Knauer.” The child’s father requested of Adolph Hitler himself that his son be allowed death because he was blind, retarded, and missing an arm and a leg. Surely, in his condition, he would be better off dead. Hitler turned the case over to his personal physician, Karl Brandt, and in 1938 the request was granted.
Over the next few months, a committee set out to establish practical means by which such “mercy deaths” could be granted to other children who had no prospect for meaningful life. The hospital at Eglfing-Haar, under the direction of Hermann Pfannmuller, M.D., slowly starved many of the disabled children in its care until they died of “natural causes.” Other institutions followed suit, some depriving its small patients of heat rather than food. Medical personnel who were uncomfortable with what they were asked to do were told this was not killing: they were simply withholding treatment and “letting nature take its course.”
Over time Pfannmuller set up Hungerhauser (starvation houses) for the elderly. By the end of 1941, euthanasia was simply “normal hospital routine.”
In the meantime, no law had been passed permitting euthanasia. Rather, at the end of 1939, Hitler signed this letter:
“Reichleader Bouhler and Dr. Med. Brandt are responsibly commissioned to extend the authority of physicians to be designated by name so that a mercy death may be granted to patients who, according to human judgment, are incurably ill according to the most critical evaluation of the state of their disease.”
Peter Kreeft once said that “a sexualized society is a cruel society.”
It is what he "feels" it is...as most sociopaths believe.
I've had the honor of caring for these "useless eaters" (as some of my colleagues called them) and I can say it was the most rewarding time of my life.
IMHO, every human being has been given a purpose, even if only to make us search our souls as to how willing we are to care for or treat the most vulnerable among us.
A sexualized society prioritizes the young and beautiful over everyone else - the sexy are thus the most important and valuable.
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