I wrote: Because Dr. Dean is not just content to tell people how to think and how to live; now he wants to determine who should live and who should die.
You responded: Dean didn't do that--Jeb Bush just did. The government did. Not many true conservatives I know are comfortable with the government determining who should live and who should die. Dean's point was that the government should not intrude into such things. He's right.
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It seems that what Dean was saying was that the legislature didn't have the knowledge or education that he did with his MD and that this made him superior to those who made the decision. A lot of conservatives are concerned that somehow food and water have before this been withheld as part of withholding extraordinary means to save someone. That's appalling, and very dangerous for what it could lead to in an aging society. Read the thread again. There are examples of people who depend on feeding tubes to survive but now lead good lives.
What happened hear is Dr. Dean again is talking down to them, criticizing their deeply felt feelings on the issue, and telling them of his superior thought process. If MDs are so superior to legislators, why isn't he practicing medicine?
Because they just NEED his inimitable brilliance, I guess. A wicked man does not become suddenly unwicked because he gets an emmdee degree.