Posted on 03/04/2005 12:28:13 PM PST by aculeus
Murder is a legal matter. Here, in NC, I may shoot & kill anyone breaking into my home and will not be charged as, by law, it its not murder. Try the same thing in NY or MA (and many other states) and you are very likely to serve a long sentence for murder.
Under Oregon law, doctor assisted suicide is not, if the rules are followed, murder.
People used to kill their relatives when they were old and dying, witness the tribes that used to set their sick, old people out in the winter to die quickly by freezing instead of slowly by "natural" causes.
Why do we put down anials that are suffering but refuse to let a person decide for themselves when it is time to depart?
Oh, yeah, I forgot: Those were the people we used to (so judgementally) call UNCIVILIZED.
Not to mention that "under God" foolishness.
there you have it.
Living is a 'complication'.
"Since the law took effect in 1997, more than 170 people in Oregon have used it to end their lives."
Just think--if this were the State of Washington, there'd be one more Republican governor today.
Maybe there IS something to this "assisted suicide" business. Good for the Blue States!
The "under God" part doesn't bother me a bit. There's obviously some much bigger power in the universe than just the homo sapiens critters crawling around planet Earth. Different people have different beliefs about the nature of that power, some very specific and literal, others very abstract. But "God" is a good catch-all name for it (even works for Muslims, since "Allah" is just Arabic for "God"), and anybody who gets their panties in a wad over the benign, non-specific "under God" in the pledge is mentally disordered (Michael Newdow being Exhibit A).
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There is something really stupid in that sentence....
Well, of course it won't! It doesn't hamper his voters either.
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