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To: bink12
What the Death Penalty allows is not the voluntary taking of one's own life, it allows murder by the state using a specific method of killing. What's the difference? On a moral level it's still murder whether the law prohibits it or not.

If you have to ask what is the difference between the government using it's God-granted authority to execute a duly tried and convicted murderer and granting physicians legal authority to enable a suicide you probably wouldn't understand if I explained it. But nevertheless, it IS morally correct for a government to execute murderers and it IS morally wrong to legalize the deliberate premeditated killing of sick people, whether or not you understand why that is true.

Hitler's government was duly elected by the German people, thus giving it both moral and legal authority to execute murderers. But nothing in any moral code of the civilized world gave his government, or any other government, the moral authority to execute innocent people. However, the USSC just granted the state of OR the same illegitimate authority that Hitler took by force, and by so doing placed itself on the same barbaric moral plane as the 1973 court which authorized the legal murder of pre-birth children.

722 posted on 01/17/2006 2:52:30 PM PST by epow (Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, II Cor 3:17)
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To: epow

Your #722 is very well stated!


727 posted on 01/17/2006 2:57:01 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: epow

Again, show me where in the Oregon law there's the slightest bit of "premeditated killing of innocent people"? This is not about euthanasia; it's about suicide! Please, no more strawman arguments.


731 posted on 01/17/2006 2:59:58 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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