Posted on 05/16/2023 12:16:26 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
As support for assisted suicide in Canada climbs despite an excruciating series of stories reporting that the poor and disabled are opting for lethal injections out of pure desperation, we are witnessing the emergence of a truly post-Christian culture. As a headline in the U.K. magazine The Spectator asked last year: “Why is Canada euthanising the poor?” The response from some bio-ethicists appears to be: Well, why not?
In fact, a new paper by two bioethicists at the University of Toronto makes the case that euthanizing the poor should be socially acceptable. Kayla Wiebe, a PhD candidate in philosophy, and bioethicist Amy Mullin, a philosophy professor, wrote in the Journal of Medical Ethics that:
To force people who are already in unjust social circumstances to have to wait until those social circumstances improve, or for the possibility of public charity but unreliably occurs when particularly distressing cases become public, is unacceptable. A harm reduction approach acknowledges that the recommended solution is necessarily an imperfect one: a ‘lesser evil’ between two or more less than ideal options.
The horror stories of Canadians seeking assisted suicide because they cannot get the social assistance they need are “worst-case scenarios,” the bioethicists write. “One way of responding to these cases is, ‘Well, clearly then, medical aid in dying should not be available to them,’” Mullin said in an interview. “We just don’t think the fact that social conditions are contributing to make their lives intolerable means that they don’t have the wherewithal to make that choice. People can make their own determination about whether their lives are worth living, and we should respect that...”
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
I get the impression that the job of "ethicists" is to invent fancy-sounding excuses for doing unethical things.
Leftists care about people so much. Are you poor or disabled? Kill yourself. 🙄
how about we write a paper supporting euthanasia for parasite academics drones who contribute nothing to the world?
I like that a lot better since the poor are not nearly as costly to the world as they (him, her) are.
ACADEMIC (ak-uh-DEM-ik): An individual educated beyond his intelligence who is unwilling or unable to create or provide anything of value to others, who while hiding out in a think-tank, college or university pontificates and expects to be paid for it, usually from public funds.
Nazis.
I am writing a paper on why moronic, attention divas pretending to be academics and intellectuals should be euthanized.
I think I can get it published.
Aren’t a lot of Canada’s poor indigenous peoples? Seems they’ve been in an uproar over their past treatment. How does this tly?
Those who hate me, love death.
Proverbs 8:36
“What we really need to do around here is to shoot a few more intellectuals”-Kruschev
I would add Peter Singer, a past Princeton ethics department head whose beliefs fit well with Nazi ethics. It amazes me how Jews like Singer can embrace Nazi-like beliefs.
What about politicians? Those are the bass turds who need euthanizing first.
Rich wanting to kill the poor
Lapsed Mennonites are the worst.
Here is another.
Wonder if they are any relation ?
https://meaww.com/doctor-euthanized-brags-about-helping-kill-man
The West is sounding more and more like Nazi Germany.
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Lenin, Hitler, Communists, Fascists, didn’t propose giving sex hormones to kids.
Fidelito first.
Maybe they could create camps and have showers for the people first...
she has history
I am looking for a link to the original paper about the title of this thread.
Sounds a bit like a Catch 22 deal.
The some greater good is society itself. In Socialism, society is more important than the individual. If an individual can not produce a net gain for society (if he is a drain) he must be cast aside for the good of society.
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