Posted on 06/16/2018 10:47:39 AM PDT by Simon Green
Dorothy Parker! My Drunken Spirit Animal! :)
‘I like to have a Martini, two at the very most. After three I’m under the table, after four I’m under my host.’
Netherlands.
Wise you are not.
I shall pray for you, may you have a long pain free life. May you have a peaceful death at the end of your life. GOD bless you.
I have no problem with a person’s refusal of treatment, which we have had forever. But, selling them a weapon of some sort, whether it be drugs, knives, or guns, to end it, where someone else makes money from the event, no way. Most people die a miserable death.
In assisted death, the drug makers make money, the administrators make money, insurance makes money, and lawyers make money. Heirs also get their money faster. So, what’s not to like?
You started this by criticizing the article posted by G Larry, that laid out the pitfalls of State Assisted Suicide often disguised as "The Right to Die with Dignity" that began in Oregon back in John Ashcroft days. Calling the argument specious and cautioning that Slippery Slope defenses were not well thought out.
My first comment pointed out a simple slippery slope that slipped whole hog into a State battle with the Church that threatens to abrogate one half of the First Amendment. The weak sister SS decision in the cake case aside, that isn't over yet in fact a printer has already been ordered by a judge to print custom wedding invitations for a gay couple.
In Oregon they are attempting to pass into law the right for the State to decide for you, that you would rather be starved to death than be alive in a mental institution. This bill failed a year or so ago but now the Speaker is the one introducing it. Don't try to tell me Slippery Slope arguments are specious they work exactly the way the name implies.
Just an observation but you sound a lot more like a libertarian than a Conservative.
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