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To: wagglebee
This situation IS NOT about cost, don’t try to make that an issue.

It's about someone stupid overdosing.

There is a price for stupidity.

Many whole nations are so stupid as to reject capitalism, and especially capitalism for their food production. As a result, as a nation, they are always one day away from starvation. Many do starve to death.

Sometimes, the price for stupidity is death.

56 posted on 02/03/2008 2:21:41 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle; 8mmMauser; floriduh voter; BykrBayb
Sometimes, the price for stupidity is death.

What you seem to ignore is the FACT there there is a centuries-old medical technique to keep her from dying.

57 posted on 02/03/2008 2:39:51 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: Balding_Eagle; wagglebee
Sometimes, the price for stupidity is death.

I think that you may be making a mistake I often commit of confusing price and penalty. Certainly many people perish due to their own poorly thought out actions and the price for this stupidity is death. However, this case surrounds the issue of whether death should be inflicted upon someone who was maimed but not killed by her poor decisions. The use of illegal drugs in and of itself is not a capital crime and those guilty of it are not executed. The fact that this activity played a part in her condition should not be a consideration in the deliberate taking of her life anymore than if she had been in an automobile accident while breaking the speed limit. The decision about whether to starve this poor women to death should be made without consideration of the nature of the accidental that led to her condition but rather the morality of each respective course of action in this present circumstance.

63 posted on 02/03/2008 3:29:23 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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