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To: cyncooper

I see the point of this thread. It's about a group of folks who believed that starving a person to death was "merciful" and "compassionate", based on hearsay, who claimed to be fed up with the name-calling, etc. yet that group, self-dubbed as the "coalition of the sane" have, by default, labeled anyone who doesn't agree with their "compassionate" ways as "insane".

Now, tell me again why I would want to enjoin myself with hypocrisy?


3,829 posted on 04/01/2005 10:03:24 AM PST by Sister_T (Those who preach tolerance and love, practice it THE LEAST!!)
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To: Sister_T
It's about a group of folks who believed that starving a person to death was "merciful" and "compassionate", based on hearsay

Would you care to provide some evidence that this "group of folks" collectively holds this opinion?

3,835 posted on 04/01/2005 10:07:24 AM PST by malakhi
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To: Sister_T
The WPPFF is NOT of one mind regarding the outcome of the Terri Schiavo case. In fact, the Manifesto makes NO mention of any preferred outcome.

All we want is a civil discussion so facts can be brought and reasonably evaluated, without the overheated rhetoric.

Is that so bad?

3,836 posted on 04/01/2005 10:07:31 AM PST by Long Cut (Threadbearer for the Fellowship of the Wild Turkeys)
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To: Sister_T

You assertion is incorrect, ma'am.


3,842 posted on 04/01/2005 10:15:58 AM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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To: Sister_T

When the Allies liberated Germany there were no Nazis to be found. All the local farmers claimed they had no idea there had been death camps in their back yards. "I know nothing" was not coined by the character, Shultz, on Hogan's Heroes.


3,844 posted on 04/01/2005 10:18:51 AM PST by donbosco74 ("Men and devils make war on me in this great city." (Paris) --St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort.)
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To: Sister_T
I'm sorry, but you don't seem to get it.

No one here is saying that everyone holds the same opinion. We don't. More then a few people have stated they do NOT agree with feeding tube removal.

I just want CIVIL discussion. Calling people "deathites", "death cultists", "Nazis", "DUers", "lefties", etc., is not civil. I'm not saying you have done any of these things, but these are some of the names that have been flying around.

Everyone is free to have their opinion and free to debate, but hateful names and horrid accusations have got to stop.
3,848 posted on 04/01/2005 10:22:58 AM PST by retrokitten (I heart Tony Snow)
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To: Sister_T
"I see the point of this thread. It's about a group of folks who believed that starving a person to death was "merciful" and "compassionate", based on hearsay, who claimed to be fed up with the name-calling,...."

That may have been what you saw, but not what, IMO, many others saw...

"The WPPFF is NOT of one mind as to the case of TS or its correct outcome. In fact, wide disagreement exists within our little group. However, we are united in our wish that reason and sanity be respected in the discussion, as well as the rights of all parties involved or participating. We wish to discuss this as adults and intellectuals, as conservatives and as FRiends, not as children screaming past each other on some playground of hysteria. We wish for facts and evidence to be provided, discussed reasonably, and considered fairly.

We reject all accusations of Naziism, "death cultism", or other slander as methods of debate. We reject the practice of "spamming" multiple threads, of posting unending vanities, and the posting of propaganda and calls for violence. We reject, in fact, all unseemly and childish behavior which has come to characterize this case on FR."

Would you consider the above statement as a possible point to this?

3,851 posted on 04/01/2005 10:25:25 AM PST by 506trooper (No such thing as too much guns, ammo or fuel on board...unless you're on fire)
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To: Sister_T
There are many on this thread holding conflicting views on Schiavo.

The difference is that we try hard to discuss it with nobody invoking Godwins Law.

3,852 posted on 04/01/2005 10:28:24 AM PST by DCPatriot (Im a charter member in the WPPFF)
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To: Sister_T

No, that's not the point of the thread.

Not at all.


3,864 posted on 04/01/2005 10:41:14 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: Sister_T

On this thread there are those who are appalled that Terris feeding tube was pulled, and there are others who disagree...

If you dont believe that, then I can only guess that you have not read the whole entire thread, or dont understand what you have read...

I have said, from the beginning, I did not want Terri Shiavos tube pulled, and if you insist in saying that I personally wanted her tube pulled, then obviously you did not understand what I wrote...

And there is certainly enough hypocrisy to go around to all the threads...


4,074 posted on 04/01/2005 2:59:06 PM PST by andysandmikesmom
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To: Sister_T

I was very pro-Terri but after a while the talk in many Terri threads was extremely counterproductive. You're welcome to post though.


4,082 posted on 04/01/2005 3:25:48 PM PST by cyborg (Feel the FReeper Love)
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