But this idea fails to explain why we have reached a place where it can happen, why the others to whom it happened were killed, and why the courts are now agreeing that people who cannot speak for themselves can be murdered by law.
"In 1920 a German judge, Karl Binding, and a psychiatrist, Alfred Hoche, wrote a book called The Release of the Destruction of Life Devoid of Value. It justified euthanasia of 'absolutely worthless human beings,' those 'mentally completely dead,' with lives not worth living.
That philosophy became the basis of the German euthanasia program proposed by the Nazi Ministry of Justice on October 7, 1933, and implemented six years later. The program was planned and carried out by psychiatrists and medical doctors who systematically murdered over a million people: the mentally ill, World War I amputees, emotionally disturbed children, the elderly and others considered unfit to live."
For those of you who think this is something new...
Yes, and they get away with it, too. Those of us who consider this murder are labeled as crazy. There is really no such thing as the sancitity of human life in legal circles anymore, unless they deem a particular life worthwhile.