Why do you have such strong urges to control others’ lives? Why do you feel that you or the government knows better than an individual how to run his life?
What do you have against the patients’ wishes having primacy?
Hmmmm...in the Netherlands, Britain, Canada and Oregon, people are having their lives continue or end at the pleasure of the government. I clearly stand against that, yet you accuse me of standing for it. You ignore my argumanrts and then claim I'm arguing something completely different. You're no different than those annoying, empty-headed twits who say that pro-lifers want to control what kind of sex people have.
Do you think that the Dutch, British, Canadian and Oregonian pols promised people more control, or less? You have to answer these questions if you're going to claim your position involves patient freedom, used car salesman.
What do you have against the patients’ wishes having primacy?
As I've stated before (I say this for the lurkers, since we've pretty much established you don't care what my real position is), my position is as follows:
I am not willing to screw up the finest medical system in the history of the world so that you guys can have your way.
I am not willing to screw up the legal system that guards my rights and the rights of everyone I love so that you guys can have your way.
I am certainly not willing to do these things to "solve" problems that only arise in an infinitesimal number of medical cases.
That goes double when many of those problems result from bad case management or family meddling.
That goes triple when we can see that other countries and even a U.S. state have gone down this road and found that it leads to coercion of the sick and vulnerable.
The simple facts--and simple compassion--are on my side.
Go talk about primacy of wishes with one of those folks who's gotten a lovely (unsigned!) "no chemo for you, but we'll kill you for free" letter from the Oregon government. You're trying to sell us the same thing your crowd sold there.