Slippery slope my white arse, there's naught but a long drop before us and too many lemmings rushing headlong for the edge.
Prayers for Terri and her family that God will strengthen them while the minions of evil surround and assail them.
“If we present man with a concept of man which is not true, we may well corrupt him. When we present him as an automaton of reflexes, as a mind machine, as a bundle of instincts, as a pawn of drive and reactions, as a mere product of heredity and environment, we feed the nihilism to which modern man is, in any case, prone. I became acquainted with the last stage of corruption in my second concentration camp, Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity and environment - or, as the Nazis liked to say, "of blood and soil." I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.”
- Viktor Frankl
The slippery slope argument is valid. In my lifetime this agrument has gone from "should we pull the plug on the respirator of a brain-dead patient" to "Should we allow a man to starve his disabled wife because he says she would want him to?". IN MY SHORT LIFETIME!!!!
As a society becomes more nihilistic, it permits ever more inhuman acts of evil.
The comparison, by way of philosophy is valid.
Slippery slope my white arse, there's naught but a long drop before us and too many lemmings rushing headlong for the edge.
Prayers for Terri and her family that God will strengthen them while the minions of evil surround and assail them.