As far as I can tell, you are some sort of anarchist who favors eliminating government altogether. I don’t know where you come up with this nonsense, because it isn’t Christian and it certainly isn’t conservative and Free Republic is after all a conservative and not an anarchist/libertarian forum.
In any event, it still seems that you have no opposition to a doctor or hospital choosing to end someone’s life based upon some arbitrary definition of futile.
“As far as I can tell, you are some sort of anarchist who favors eliminating government altogether. I don’t know where you come up with this nonsense, because it isn’t Christian and it certainly isn’t conservative and Free Republic is after all a conservative and not an anarchist/libertarian forum.”
“In any event, it still seems that you have no opposition to a doctor or hospital choosing to end someone’s life based upon some arbitrary definition of futile.”
I am a Christian who understands the Scriptural mandate for government (e.g.,as set forth in Rom 13:1-10, and 1 Pet 2:13-17), and certainly not an anarchist (although I am a realist about the nature of human government and its possibilities, as set forth quite well in places like 1 Samuel 8, 1Jo 5:19, and in Augustine’s “City of God”).
You misread me when you say that I have no opposition to physicians killing their patients. On the other hand, there is a difference between killing, and refusing to continue treatments of various kinds. I think that the state should have very limited authority to require physicians or other care givers to perform services.
If we make the state the primary vehicle for paying (or permit it to exercise indirect control over payments) for medical services, however, this will extend its authority practically whether we like it or not.