I fear it is just a minority of Americans who have not bought into liberalism's culture of death and decay. The trend may irreversible. Peter Singer's ghastly new world of human utilitarianism appears to be dawning in America.
My boyfriend is a liberal and thinks the same way but when I hit him with "You would starve and dehydrate a person to death" he hit me with "it will be painless". I said "how do you know it will be painless?" of course he said "the doctors said it will be". I asked "which doctor sat there, starved and dehydrated himself to see it it was painless?" He shut up right away and could not answer me.
I fear it is just a minority of Americans who have not bought into liberalism's culture of death and decay. The trend may irreversible. Peter Singer's ghastly new world of human utilitarianism appears to be dawning in America.
You're right about all of this and aside from the tragedy of Terri Schiavo, the larger tragedy is that the people clamoring for Terri's death are dragging society down the road into a culture of death no less heinous than that trod by the Nazis and their infamous T-4 "euthanasia" program. For once a society decides that death is preferable to life, and begins to use that as a pretext for killing those deemed "unworthy" or "undesirable" of "inconvenient" (read expensive), then it is only a few short, slippery steps to the point of taking "the right to die" to mean "the obligation to die".
Well, to those on FR and elsewhere who are salivating and gleeful over the prospect of dancing on Terri's grave and wallowing in her innocent blood, all I can say is, be careful what you wish for, because you might get it. Today the bell tolls for Terri Schiavo, tomorrow it tolls for thee and thy loved ones. And when you feel the shroud of death descending upon you after taking the needle against your will, may your final thought not be "Why me?" so much as "What have I done?"
Exactly, they call it their "libertarian" side and stress that the "government has no business in family matters." Well, when was murdering one's spouse by judicial decree a "family matter." Or they ask, "Who's gonna pay for Terri's care?" The American people as a whole are at best asleep at the switch or at worst sick themselves.
This issue isn't splitting the American people along the lines of Republican and Democrat so much as among the decent vs. the uncaring.
No need to reply if you feel insulted. Rather, ponder your values. If you still feel the same way, ponder longer.
Exactly.