Wesley J. Smith: Duty to Die Gains Traction in UK

First Things/Secondhand Smoke ^ | 6/30/11 | Wesley J. Smith

[trisham]

Why even have doctors? Think of the money that we could save if we stopped using antibiotics! What about surgery? WAY too expensive. Vaccinations? Get rid of those and the savings would be substantial.

Let's get serious here and really do something about this issue. Money. It's the most important thing, isn't it? Well, other than Mother Earth.

[Theodore R.]

This was advocated by CO Governor Lamm in the mid-1970s. Did Prescott Bush also take this line in the early 1950s?

[Theodore R.]

I don’t think welfare slackers would be on the termination list but would be glorified as the very purpose of government.

[grey_whiskers]

Too many defects per 1000 lines of code? No food for you.

*That'll* put an end to offshoring!

...or maybe not. Some of the most incomprehensible bloatware I've ever seen came from offshore.

But you raise a serious point. Who determines what is "useful" work, especially as the private sector gets crowded out and a labyrinthine order of "set asides" and other quotas reserves occupational lebensraum for members of preferred victim groups. To be laid off is to die.

...and we eagerly anticipate the lovely spectacle of slots being reserved for such vital things as Princeton University's The Cultural Production of Early Modern Women examines “prostitutes,” “cross-dressing,” and “same-sex eroticism” in 16th - and 17th - century England, France, Italy and Spain

Whether this will lead to a dystopia such as that in Canticle for Leibowitz, or merely the tragic death of an itinerant civilization due to the regrettable and unenlighted omission of telephone sanitizers, as related by Douglas Adams in Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, is beyond me.

Cheers!

[Drill Thrawl]

The socialists. Ya know, “our betters”

[Studebaker Hawk]

Why even have doctors? Think of the money that we could save if we stopped using antibiotics! What about surgery? WAY too expensive. Vaccinations? Get rid of those and the savings would be substantial.

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How 'bout medical school part of the school system? Graduate high school at 26 yrs old.

Physician heal thyself.

[Myrddin]

Slippery slope.

[Lurker]

If they had left the money in the hands of its rightful owners, it wouldn't be their decision. That's why they wanted to take over health care.

Yep.

[Lurker]

People are going to have to answer for this on the Day of Judgment..

Some of us might not be willing to wait that long.

[Myrddin]

The whacky commies love to claim the value of all labor is equal. To that I suggest that we grab a janitor when any of those fools needs a heart surgeon, brain surgeon or other highly skilled professional. Let them live (or die) with the consequences of that belief.

[Moonman62]

The cull of useless eaters begins. Too many defects per 1000 lines of code? No food for you. You're not worth feeding. The old and sick get culled first. The welfare slackers next. When the government gets to choose who is worthy of life...watch out.

Yep. It's a slippery slope. What will be the dividing line and who will make the decision? I can imagine them terminating global warming deniers for the greater good.

[wagglebee]

Pinged from Terri Dailies

[Myrddin]

The “greater good” is what self appointed deity applies to others when placed in a position of power. The liberal flavor is particularly vicious. The current administration is an example.