Posted on 05/08/2023 7:00:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Leftist policies start out seemingly reasonable and compassionate before they become totally monstrous. Initially, there are sympathetic test cases, they started out with arguing that raped 12-year-olds should be able to get an abortion, and then before you know, it’s partial-birth abortion for bored celebrities. Euthanasia was supposed to help those with fatal illnesses suffering a great deal of pain. And then, in typical fashion, it morphed into killing teenagers and the depressed.
Where to in the Great North? How about killing the homeless and the poor?
Half of Canadians would agree to allow adults in Canada to seek medical assistance in dying due to an inability to receive medical treatment (51%) or a disability (50%). Fewer than three-in-ten would consent to expand the guidelines to include homelessness (28%) or poverty (27%) as reasons to seek medical assistance in dying.
Canadians are split when pondering if mental illness should be a justification for an adult to seek medical assistance in dying: 43% support this idea, while 45% are opposed.
That’s 1 in 4 on board with euthanasia for the poor and the homeless. Among the 18-34 crowd, it’s 40%.
And that means that this is the next bar. The conservatives will die off or be killed, leaving an exciting new electorate...
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“Canadians are split when pondering if mental illness should be a justification for an adult to seek medical assistance in dying...”
...and only if those affirming voices are not the adult in question.
And they’ll make sure everyone is poor.
What about senior leadership in Q beck?
I was thinking Dead Kennedy’s Kill the Poor.
If anyone thinks that ideology is just specific to young Canadians, they live in Fantasy Land.
Why not the super rich and take their money is what these idiots really want
We may well have President Cthulhu if the Democrats win in 2024
We’ve seen this movie before. How long until the Canadian government starts mandating it for selected people? That’s where this is going.
Hitler had a program for euthanizing children with disabilities. IIRC, the program was called Tiergartenstrasse 4 (T4) after the street where the program’s office was located in Berlin.
Hitler also had a program for euthanizing disabled grownups who were costing the state money for their care in institutions.
I support euthanizing rich democrats.
I gotta keep this thread in mind.
then don’t go to Canada!
The system works, eh?
Buncha no good hosers sucking up all da Molsons and our free health care, eh?
these are desperately deranged people. EVERYONE is poor at some point in their lives.
If you have ever wondered who Christs tells those they did or did not do for the least of these, here is something to consider.
yes, I can see the slippery slope.
Beat me to it. At least Swift’s essay was supposed to be satire. We’re taking it literally. Soylent Green, here we come.
Just hand out free fentanyl and let nature take its course.
Wait! What? The CCP is already doing it?
Never mind.
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