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Ping.

This is sick.

What I don't get is how people can't see where this is leading to. You have pretty much unrestricted euthanasia in the Netherlands, and how long till that comes here.

How long till some one thinks that the old pamphlet "A Modest Proposal" is a real blueprint? How long till they start up the camps and the ovens?

You have pretty much unrestricted euthanasia in the Netherlands

When they first legalized euthanasia in the Netherlands, they said it was only for those who specifically requested it. Then they started killing those who couldn’t ask for it themselves, calling it “mercy killing”. Next, they proposed lowering the age of euthanasia to 12 years old or even younger. Now, they just kill, then tell the government and expect the government to pass a law legalizing their actions.

and how long till that comes here.

In my 'guesstimate', about 10 more years and here's my theory. To date, 40+ million have been aborted, removing them from the tax rolls. As baby boomers, the generation that legalized abortion, move into retirement, they will increase demands on an overburdened Social Security System. Since those monies will be coming from abortion survivors, it seems only fair that they may very well turn the tables and legalize euthanasia. Somewhat of a poetic justice, don't you think?

A few weekends back, very late at night, I reread Swift's "A Modest Proposal". http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Courses/95c/Texts/modest.html

It had been more than a decade since I had read it. I read it straight through and at a point of near sleep-reading I forgot that it was satire and started thinking it was a current and serious proposal put forth by a Peter Singer type "ethicist"

"How long till some one thinks that the old pamphlet "A Modest Proposal" is a real blueprint? How long till they start up the camps and the ovens?" That is a battle between the red and blue states. If the country went all blue it WOULD happen in short order IMO.