I read Adam’s post. He is grieving for his dad and feeling anger about it. I lost my Mom a couple of months ago. Losing a parent is TOUGH.
I thoroughly disagree with him, but we shouldn’t kick a man when he’s down.
Let’s give him some space.
“He is grieving for his dad and feeling anger about it.”
I can feel for him. My mom just passed away but at a very old age and in good spirits, mind and body up until the last few days. And even then she was okay with all the morphine. I can’t imagine watching a loved one suffer for so long like so many others I have known, including myself with my father-in-law.
On the other hand - why must he blame the pro-lifers? If he so wants his loved one out of their misery he could smother them with a pillow while they sleep. Why does he need someone else to kill his father?
Speaking of the morphine for my mom, a bit of wondering there if hospice, when managing the pain and the other symptoms, doesn’t do it in such a way that you are in fact killing them with it? I don’t think so, and they assured us that wasn’t the case, but.....
I thoroughly disagree with him, but we shouldn’t kick a man when he’s down.
Let’s give him some space.
On the other hand, I agree with Wesley J. Smith:
One final thought: Adams’ grief is no excuse for such vile and quasi-threatening advocacy. I have seen parents of murdered children with more grace than that. Our character expresses itself in times of extremis. Good grief.
My agreement aligns with Smith's reasoning: this sort of post is simply at least a bit abnormal, even for the grieving in their most acute grief. If it's normal enough for people who've just lost their parents to write something so depraved, where do I find such writing?
My father, who I loved very much, had a terrible completely disabling stroke, and took five months to die.
He always told me that, of all the ways to die, he thought having a disabling stroke, leaving him unable to functionally even move one arm but leaving his mind intact was the one way he never wanted to die. But that was what God dealt him.
But, as grief stricken as I was, I would never have had the thoughts that Scott Adams did. But I agree with you. Unless this has been something he has been saying all along, I think the kind thing to do would be to assume he is mentally compromised by his grief.