How about baby bottles are they artificial? If so then perhaps we should let infants who's mothers can't nurse die of starvation?
What, another liberal?
Yes, feeding tubes are artificial, and so are baby bottle; and aspirins for that matter. (And bourbon is artificial. Can man live without bourbon?) I never suggested that everything artificial is bad.
I only said that I would not want to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Do I have that right, or must you decide, in Teddy Kennedy fashion, for me because you think you know what is better for me and my family than I do?
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You are just being logically inelegant by drawing the line at "artificial".
How about kidney dialysis, should they all die because this is an artificial process? Christopher Reeve on a portable respirator, pretty artificial. How about prostheses? Don't want people walking on artificial limbs.
I am objecting because by blurring the clear line between sustenance and medical measures you make it easier to starve someone who is helpless.
By the way Teddy would probably want to kill Terri Schiavo because her "husband" found a more active partner and he wouldn't want to invade the lovebird's privacy.