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To: Ohioan
"The first part of your response was simply throwing words around."

Stating that murder, killing, forced euthanasia is wrong and should never be a private family matter is hardly throwing words around.

The law in Florida, right now, might read that you can murder a person in Terri's shape but that doesn't mean it's right.

The Nazi's had laws about murdering innocents, too, and Nuremburg has shown that one can't commit crimes against humanity or crimes of murder and say that one is just following orders or that it was the law so it's ok.

456 posted on 05/03/2005 10:21:51 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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To: Freedom Dignity n Honor
The Nazi's had laws about murdering innocents, too, and Nuremburg has shown that one can't commit crimes against humanity or crimes of murder and say that one is just following orders or that it was the law so it's ok.

The non-sequiturs in that are impressive. But on the subject of the Nazis, you might reconsider. The Nazis chose not to be limited by traditional legal norms and values, either. They believed that Government could exercise whatever power was necessary to do what the majority considered good--that the "end justifies the means."

That, of course, undermined the legitimacy--the morality of Government--itself. And that is precisely what was wrong with the Congressional grandstanding on the Terry Schiavo case, discussed in detail in my essay. The end does not justify the means. And the fact that some folk are not happy with the results of the judicial determinations in the Schiavo case, is not determinative of anything. They need to respect the fact that it was decided in the forum that is provided under our free system, and drop the Nazi-like "morality" which would overthrow the local Court system, for an ulterior purpose.

475 posted on 05/03/2005 10:58:21 AM PDT by Ohioan
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