Unfortunately, they are linking this with Nazism, and the reasoning is not similar in the slightest.
The reasoning is exactly the same. There is not one slightest difference. Both are occasions where the killing was considered a mercy killing.
Useless Eaters, an award-winning presentation in which the comparisons are shown.
I have worked as a medical professional for over 25 years and watched as the culture changed from one of support for the disabled to one of victimization.
The German euthanasia of the disabled came about through a collusion between the medical establishment and the courts, which is exactly what we are seeing today.
The Germans used film to change the cultural viewpoint into one that accepted that some lives were not worth living. Today we have two films winning numerous awards and both are about disabled people seeking death - The Sea Inside and Million Dollar Baby. In both of these films, life as a disabled person is sold as agonizing and miserable. Death is a release from misery. Studies have shown repeatedly that most people in the circumstances of those in the film do not rate their quality of life as lower than the the rest of us, however.
Finally, a utilitarian society is already here, for the most part. Just as in Germany, the costs of caring for those who were/are disabled is being discussed in the medical journals. The disabled are being viewed as potential organ suppliers - some are putting forth the idea that chronically ill and brain damaged children should be used for harvesting of organs - before they die, to boot.
The definition of death itself is being changed, for the first time since 1967. Suggestions have been made that the brain damaged should be used for medical experiments.
To read the medical journals today is a chilling experience. Wesley Smith explained in one of his books how the cultural debate on change would move from the professional journals to the public. Years ago I used to post about what was taking place in expensive publications, and there was only a small response here. What you are seeing now on FR is the occasion of the public realizing where we are headed.
If you want more evidence, please ask.
97 posted on 03/27/2005 12:10:57 PM CST by MarMema
Some on FReepers would be the first to seek 'find' volunteers for use in organ donating and experiments - especially if it meant they themselves, or their family members could live.