You carefully couch your words to make them seem innocuous, sort of like adding artificial flavoring to poison. Basically, you are saying "God did this to the baby so it's His fault". And you lie that you are answering only for yourself. If you only applied this to yourself, you would not be arguing with others, stating clearly that the only life worth living is one with some arbitrary list of standards and levels of enjoyment, abilities and mental capacity that you, in your all knowingness, regard as making a human life worthy enough to live. And simultaneously you read minds and you know exactly what others are experiencing in their hearts, and they don't measure up to the "life worth living" standards.
“If you only applied this to yourself, you would not be arguing with others,”
I’m not arguing with others, you’re attacking me. Calling me a liar and saying i’m artificial didn’t come out of my mind.
“God did this to the baby so it’s His fault.”
I’m also not saying that the child should die. I’m saying the child was chosen by God to bear this and I had nothing to say about it, But you think you do have a lot to say about it. So your argument is with God, not with me.
“stating clearly that the only life worth living is one with some arbitrary list of standards and levels of enjoyment, abilities and mental capacity that you, in your all knowingness, regard as making a human life worthy enough to live.”
Okay, I determined in my mind what a good life is, and you did the same. So how are you different than me. I don’t want to see years of just being and you don’t mind watching a child possibly frustrated or in pain for however it may take to determine when God decides to pass him.
Personally I don’t have a stake in this and nothing to prove. If your only difference with me is whether there is a life or not for a brain injured terminal child that apparently has one chance at any type of life at all through a still experimental process, let him have the treatment. I never said not to. Factually, in one of my posts I was all for it. But I also am not confident with the outcome as they don’t know what will happen and if it will turn out a human that could be independent and grow or just have nothing.
You want to make the decision, fine. I voiced my opinion that I wouldn’t want to wish a child dead, but the term terminal was in the article. So if you do the treatment, and it cures the illness, what’s left? We don’t know. But if it was me, I don’t want to be a vegetable. There are a few things worse than death: loss of dignity, loss of agency, or loss of a sense of purpose, to name a few. Tag into that incontinence, and in time needing a breathing machine, needing a feeding tube, and needing care all the time. And in this case, the possibility of failure of the treatment exists and the terminal remains. You call that life? I don’t. But with the information we have on his brain injuries, it is more than possible that the child will never understand what is happening to him. And that’s a blessing if it has to go that way.
I do not converse with people on these boards that start calling me names. So this is the final input from you I will read. When you have to revert to this type of action to prove a point, you’ve proved nothing. So long.
rwood