Me too, I just cannot see conservatism in wanting the state to kill non-dying citizens.
And, usually conservatives look at precedents being set.
I would never have thought we would be arguing that a man with two wives still had the right of life and death decisions over the first one.
I would never have thought there would be such anger over the stance of many to allow parents to take on a daughter scheduled for death and care for her rather than kill her.
All the while claiming that they did not want the tubes pulled.
Something else for those so eager to judge the value of others' lives.
Have you ever visited a nursing home and talked to those little people? Sure many are pitiful - but just look at the gentleness, the sweet eyes, and those little gnarled hands. They are precious people who have lived their years of contribution to this world and are winding down.
They have lost a lot - they have lost the meaness, the competitiveness, the drives that made them do good or evil. They are again like children with gentle spirits.
The innocence you see in the eyes of children, you will see in the eyes of the elderly, the deformed, the PVS, the severely handicapped. Each has faced hardships and come through it better people.
God does not consider these lives of no value. These lives paint a picture and what you see when looking at that picture is the beauty of humbleness, innocence, hardships endured, life lived.
And God expects them to be treated with loving kindness and care not death-dealing manipulating staff and relatives calculating how to kill them.
I would never have thought we would be arguing that a man with two wives still had the right of life and death decisions over the first one.
I would never have thought there would be such anger over the stance of many to allow parents to take on a daughter scheduled for death and care for her rather than kill her.
___Nor I. It has made me re-evaluate some of the people I used to think were "conservatives."
Id the Schindlers were willing to care for Terri, why not allow them
to do so, in the absense of her confirmable clear intent to be allowed to die?
Why not err on the side of life rather than death?