[Gondring]

Any government that will not protect innocent human life is not a goverment worth supporting. You don't have to be a social conservative to know that simple truth, but it helps.

Any government or group that will not RESPECT innocent human life (including rights) is not a government or group worth supporting. You don't have to be intelligent and compassionate to know that simple truth, but it helps.

I see that MANY so-called social conservatives (i.e., pseudoconservatives, unlike true social conservatives) now fight for "life at all costs" but they don't respect life, or respect the individuals and their right to decide about their own lives. A true conservative respects people--even if they choose death rather than lying in a bed, without cognition. A true conservative respects the Constitution--even if things don't go his way.

[Charles H. (The_r0nin)]

Explain how it preserves individual rights to order a person to not be fed orally. Should they not want to eat (and die), they can easily refuse. So how is a goverment judge ordering that a person not be fed in any manner respecting her rights?

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Agree. Well put.

[JCEccles]

I'm going to have to disagree with you. Any society that subscribes to the notion that torture and intentional killings are okay if consented to and done privately is not a society that thoughtful and civilized conservatives should desire.

Such a people do not comprise a civilization, but a house of horror with only a slick veneer of civilization