it seems so many have come to the wrong conclusion about the interference of government and the following of the law in the terri shiavo case.
the courts and government intervention has literally turned things so far out of context that people are fighting for the wrong reasons when they believe they are fighting for the right side.
confused? we all seem to be. let's look at it simply. terri shiavo is a vegetable. unable to feed herself. but able to be feed and kept alive, like so many houseplants by people who wish to do that.
who is it that says the government should prevent such an act as an act against the constitutional rights of terri to be allowed to die. a right to die is not constitutional.
there is no legal declaration from terri denouncing being kept alive by her parents. no written statement, just the word of someone who will benefit from her passing.
who should the law protect? everyone. including the helpless who are subjected to the whims of a majority that seem to project their desires of not living in a state such as this onto someone who has not declared such.
the law and government and the majority should never be allowed to do such, and when it does, we get what occurred in nazi germany, yes, that those who are not worthy deserve to die to end their suffering.
but terri shiavo is said not to be suffering and feels nothing, yet she shouldn't be forced to live in such a state because it is not what she would want. if she doesn't feel anything, what harm is there in letting her parents care for her.
that is the argument against government and the courts intervening. not that terri shiavo's unexpressed wishes are not being carried out, but that the wishes of her parents to care for their daughter is being prevented by a calous court bent on projecting their interpretation of law onto helpless beings.
mhking, you are far from right on this issue and your lack of consistancy in the rights of the individual over the power of the state is surprisingly frightening as to which side you are on.
teeman8r
Human beings are not vegetables. I stopped reading what you had to say when you began dehumanizing a fellow human, made in God's image. This is what will bring this country down to the level of the nazis, this dehumaninizing of others. Eventually it will slip farther and farther down the slope until we begin massively killing those who are unworthy of life.
It is not your place to decide when God calls her home. No matter what state you are in.