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 ...
A modest proposal update.
poor people write paper arguing in favor of euthanasia for Canadian academics
The West is sounding more and more like Nazi Germany.
This was one of their ideas.
Approved. But ONLY if each and every “academic” goes first.
I am in favor of euthanasia for “Canadian academics.”
Both the USA and Canada need to go full Pinochet!
Agreed!
Socialism always ends with mass murder in the name of the name of some greater good.
Someone should write a paper about the benefits of euthanizing Canadian academics.
I guarantee you - it would get a lot more support.
I have a better idea.
For each poor and desperate person that gets euthanized, also euthanize a politician that advocated for the drastic measure. You know, DEI: diversity, equity, inclusion.
We should diversify the types that get euthanized, and make it equitable, and inclusive of all types.
The Culture of Death continues apace and is gaining traction and speed. The demonic pagan “gods” we have turned to after ejecting God from our schools, government, homes, and even our churches, are laughing with delight. They are still somewhat hiding under soft euphemisms like abortion and euthanasia, but eventually, we’ll have full-blown Aztec-type temples in every city.
Tommy Douglas, Margaret Sanger and Hitler’s eugenics dreams come true... Euthanasia for the old, the sick and deformed, the poor and the feeble minded... And abortions to prevent reproduction amongst these undesirables.
The ultimate perfection of Socialism.
Poor People decide that Academics should be Euthanized Immediately.
I propose mandatory euthanasia for politicians.
Useless eaters what did anyone think would happen!
Pencil neck policy geek member of Klaus Schwabs UN posse - “The Earth’s population is 8 billion people. We don’t need all those people”
Guess we are figuring out what they are going to do about that problem
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