Public execution

The Spectator ^ | 2 April 2005 | Mark Steyn

[mal]

Do you remember a fellow called Robert Wendland? No reason why you should. I wrote about him in this space in 1998, and had intended to return to the subject but something else always intervened — usually Bill Clinton’s penis, which loomed large, at least metaphorically, over the entire era. Mr Wendland lived in Stockton, California. He was injured in an automobile accident in 1993 and went into a coma. Under state law, he could have been starved to death at any time had his wife requested the removal of his feeding tube. But Rose Wendland was busy with this and that, as one is, and assumed there was no particular urgency.

[nothingnew]

As ever, thanks again Pokey78.

FMCDH(BITS)

[american colleen]

Gotta go but just had to give you a quick 'LOL!' --- too true bump.

[beaversmom]

Yes, we are all just reactionary right wing nut jobs. It's one thing to get labeled like that from the real nut jobs at the DUmmy site but I'm quite shocked that so many of our so called FRiends have gone into such name calling.

[beaversmom]

from the article:

Until a year or two back, I spent a lot of my summer Saturdays manning the historical society booth at the flea markets on the town common, and I passed many a pleasant quarter-hour or so chit-chatting with elderly ladies leading some now middle-aged simpleton child around. Both parties seemed to enjoy the occasion. The child is no doubt a ‘burden’: he was born because he just was; there was no ‘choice’ about it in those days. Having done away with those kinds of ‘burdens’ at birth, we’re less inclined to tolerate them when they strike in adulthood, as they did in Terri Schiavo’s case.

[xsmommy]

it has been eyeopening as well as personally disheartening, but i still maintain their numbers are far fewer than they would believe. they are a sanctimonious but vocal few.

[Calpernia]

ping!

[beaversmom]

Mary Steyn ping. Another good article about the Schiavo case from Mark Steyn. Check out my previous post--I highlighted a very good point he makes.

[tnlibertarian]

the step from convenience euthanasia to compulsory euthanasia is a short one.

Ah, yes, which is why we have had compulsory abortion in this country for years, now. However wrong the courts are in the Schiavo case, this statement doesn't stand up to Steyn's usual common sense.

[beaversmom]

Thanks for the Steyn pings Pokey.

[McGavin999]

In order to impeach you'd have to have the legislature involved. Seeing they stood by and allowed this to happen, I doubt that will happen. The Florida legislature REFUSED to help.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

yes, in the same camp as ann coulter, laura ingraham, peggy noonan, mark levin, thomas sowell, ben stein et al. But NONE of them KNOW anything obviously, probably haven't read THE WOLFSON REPORT and are just reacting emotionally to the entire affair...

On page 33 Wolfson make the following statement:

"(Descartes addressed this in his proposition that it is our awareness, our consciousness that defines our being: "Cogito, ergo sum." This logic would imply that unless we are aware and conscious, we cease to be.)"

This fallacy of logic is at the heart of his whole thesis. This was noticed by FReeper syriacus HERE from context posted HERE.


(Descartes addressed this in his proposition that it is our awareness, our consciousness that defines our being: "Cogito, ergo sum." This logic would imply that unless we are aware and conscious, we cease to be.)

That's bad logic.

The statement,
"I don't think, therefore, I am not,"
cannot be proven true,
from the truthfulness of the statement,
"I think, therefore I am.

The "I don't think"statement is merely the inverse of the "I think "statement."

Elementary logic: Inverse: The inverse is simply the conditional with ‘not’ added to it.

1.Statement: If p, then q
2. Inverse: If not p, then not q

A statement is not logically equivalent ... to its inverse.

993 posted on 03/30/2005 7:35:37 AM

[Cboldt]

... the way to get people to agree with us is not to insult them.

Agreed. But in fairness, the poster did not call anybody a name in that post.

[Rummyfan]

But I can’t see why, in a free society, healthy persons in their twenties should be expected to file legal documents in order to pre-empt a court order mandating their death a decade or two hence.

Thanks Pokey!

[Rummyfan]

George Felos is a demon....I am not speaking metaphorically.

I agree.

[cyncooper]

Well, misrepresenting is insulting, too, not just name-calling.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1374478/posts?page=3#3
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1374478/posts?page=5#5

[eeriegeno]

Steyn ping

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

In order to impeach you'd have to have the legislature involved. Seeing they stood by and allowed this to happen, I doubt that will happen. The Florida legislature REFUSED to help.

Please go back and READ. The governor's power is to SUSPEND and REPLACE.

[ladyjane]

While Cranford may be far more "expansive" than some others, it's very significant to note what these neurologists are doing.

Florida is going to be hurt, big time, over this. Wait to the HIV positive patients figure out how this is going to impact them. And all those people who have parents with Alzheimers - wait till they figure out what is really going on here. Billions of dollars are at stake.