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To: VirginiaConstitutionalist
She will not spring back with a full recovery.

So the moral calculus of saving someone's life is based on whether the resuscitation will "take"? Interesting standard.

The sense of self-fulfillment you get out of being the hero not trump the rights of her parents or the common decency to let her die naturally. But Hillary appreciates the sentiment, using a sense of moral outrage to take decisions away from parents.

If you really enjoy repeating this silly rhetoric over and over, be my guest. But don't imagine that it lends any strength to your arguments.

Also, it really is a matter of your opinion that she sees her continued existence as suffering. Even her parents admit that she experiences happy or joyful emotions when she is at school - so your opinion doesn't seem to be exactly definitive.

Rather than have you, VC, as the ultimate arbiter of who does or who does not have the quality of life morally necessary for survival, I would prefer to have human beings remain free moral agents answerable to their consciences and their Creator.

199 posted on 12/10/2007 12:04:28 PM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: wideawake
Rather than have you, VC, as the ultimate arbiter of who does or who does not have the quality of life morally necessary for survival...

But I flatly stated over and over again that I am not. Her parents and her doctors have decided, and as a matter of fact I disagree. But that doesn't give me the right to make decisions for her family.

You, however, seem almost enthusiatic about being the ultimate arbiter when it comes to other people's decisions.

202 posted on 12/10/2007 12:07:28 PM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Scary thought: Half of all people are dumber than the average person.)
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To: wideawake
I'm just curious...do you see "living" attached to machines eating and breathing for you, and with little or no awareness as preferable to going to be with Jesus?

If so, could you explain why? I keep wondering why we ought to try to keep people here when He is trying to call them home, but I admit that sometimes it seems like a fine line.

296 posted on 12/10/2007 6:04:02 PM PST by Amelia
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