Posted on 03/24/2005 9:30:52 PM PST by Kudsman
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that I accept the anti-life left’s wording and rationale for killing Terry Schiavo. You know the, we shouldn’t force her to live… but rather allow her to die in the name of compassion, and the, it’s not like anyone is killing her, it is merely letting nature take it’s course. Using their logic, there are a few projections I would like to make.
Firstly, we as a compassionate society should cease supplying life saving drugs to all AIDS patients that contracted the disease through homosexual activity. Think of the humiliation and self loathing of being forced to live with the knowledge you were buggered and inflicted with a disease that will eventually cost you your life. The horror of knowing you may have or will infect others. The daily agony of wondering is this the day I get sick? I wouldn’t want to live like that, so in the name of compassion we shouldn’t force anyone to do so. We should stop providing drugs that simply delay the inevitable. If the patients cannot secure the drugs through their own means then we should compassionately let nature take it’s course and allow them to die.
Next, we should remove the feeding tube collectively known as the welfare state. I could never bear the shame of being forced to live off the earnings of someone else and always coveting what others have. What dignity could there possibly be in knowing that government confiscated the goods and/or services of other productive people to provide my housing, food, water, sanitation, heat, electricity, medical care, transportation and lottery tickets. All the various programs providing food and money should immediately be discontinued. If people cannot provide their own sustenance without government interference, then we should not force them to live a life of dependency, but rather allow them to starve to death naturally in the name of compassion.
Lastly all white people not possessing both blue eyes and naturally blond hair should be banned from ever purchasing or growing food again. What a miserable existence they must have. They burn easily when exposed to sunlight, they can’t jump, very few have any rhythm and they definitely have no clue on how to detail a car! To force them to live such bleak, colorless lives is not very compassionate. They should be allowed to die of starvation. It’s the least we could do. The Auburn community has a large contingent of people of Ukrainian descent. Find an older one and ask them of the compassion and benevolence Stalin showed them as he starved millions to death simply because they weren’t Russian and the land they lived in was to be populated with Russians. Gee, what a swell and compassionate guy he was, he could almost be the idol of the American left.
Oh, wait a minute. About allowing white people to die, I just realized, that’s me! Noooooooo. Wait. I was just kidding. I changed my mind. Oh man, I haven’t got it in any legalese that I want to live. If I should suffer some horrible accident on the way home that leaves me unable to communicate, consider this my plea. Please, I beg you Judge Whateveryournameis, don’t kill me. Or maybe I should just schedule a lobotomy that the Well’s College professor mandates for anyone that votes Republican. Then I won’t care. Not such a laughing matter anymore, is it?
Queers have shorter life-spans? I'm cetainly not for doing anything to disturb that "made in heaven" gift to the rest of us.
Terri was no more being 'forced' to live than a woman walking around with a heart pacer, or a woman who needs a daily insulin shot and weekly dialysis treatments to keep the Grim Reaper at bay. According to the left's rationale food and water through a tube amounts to "extraordinary means of life support". Well it's a hell of a lot less technical and less "extraordinary" than living with a partially man-made heart.
However, the worst thing about this whole case is the fact that the parents have been literally begging Terri's husband and the Courts to grant them custody so they can take her home and care for her. They are completely willing and even eager to shoulder the burdon of their paralyzed dauther's condition all by themselves. And neither the 'husband' nor the Courts will let this happen. To to contrary, they say death for Terri is better. You just cannot call this justice from any angle you view it from. It's perverted, cruel and evil.
The Terri Schiavo case sends a definitive message to every American citizen, a message that says once we become disabled and unable to speak or fight for ourselves, do to age, infirmity, or anything else, the system can take us out like last week's garbage, and nobody can do a thing about it. Not a Governor, a Sentate or even a President. This case has defined the state of our nation.
This is just great! Rush was pointing out this use of the words "force" and "allow". Very interesting how they say the Christians want to FORCE her to live - but the normal people - well .. they were going to ALLOW her to die.
Right out of the Communist play book.
The President and Congress, both houses, the House and the Senate, are powerless because they choose not to stand for what they claim to believe in, just as the Governor is powerless. The legal system holds all the power because the other two branches have ceded the power to them. The blind judge says black is white, the other two branches say, so be it.
The Supreme Court is always right. Oh, for sure. Ask perhaps Dred Scott or the numerous separate but equal cases.
We have a perfectly readable, understandable, Constitution. Now we need to appoint judges who can read and understand. We need an executive and legislative branch who can read and understand. We need a nation, determined to be "One Nation, Under God, with liberty and justice for all" A nation dedicated to LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
What we don't need is a system that somehow finds a complete rejection of the recognition of God in the phrase, "Congress shall make no laws regarding the establishment of religion," yet cannot find a right to be armed in the phrase, "the Right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." We do not need a nation that finds a right of a school to send a minor child for an abortion and hides the event from the parent, yet has zero tolerance for drugs, such as an asprin, or weapons, such as a nail file.
We need to get BACK to BASIC.
amen
Truly. Thanks. And a wish for a Blessed Good Friday to you.
Yes indeed. It's seems to me this tragedy can be summed up in one word. Strip away all the surrogacy arguments, the medical opinions on mental state and the lack of written wishes and it comes down to DEFAULT. What is our society's default position when there are no prior clearly indicated decisions. There are only two positions from which to choose. Life or Death.
With Life there are a number of different outcomes that could occur. Improvement and continued life. No improvement and continued life. Deteriorating condition to a natural death.
With Death there are no alternative outcomes.
It would be my inclination that if someone, (especially a family member), provides continued food and water, then the default position ought to be to allow Life, rather than force Death.
That being said, with the air of uncertainty as to Mrs. Schiavo's wishes and the mitigating concerns regarding Mr. Schiavo's motivations I would hope this wouldn't even be a hard decision.
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