Mark Steyn: Public execution

The Spectator ^ | April 2, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[Jim Noble]

It’s foolish to think you can raise entire populations — not to mention generations of doctors — to make self-interested judgments about who lives and who doesn’t and expect them to remain confined to three trimesters.

Can't say it enough.

[sphinx]

Just why do you think our nation 30 years hence will want to tax themselves to death to pay for the care and feeding and prosperity of a bunch of old white Anglo geezers?

But that's a long time away, and we are not to worry about anything beyond the next election.

So saith the democrats.

[RippleFire]

bump

[dennisw]

this woman is being put to death without any serious medical evaluation more recent than 12 years ago.

Now that's just plain criminal. Medicine has advanced in 12 years

[trebb]

That it is, uniquely, a crime to serve Mrs Schiavo a beverage underlines the court’s intent — not to cease the artificial prolongation of life but actively to cause her death.

Gives a lift to the hair on the back of my neck...

[AHerald]

After a fresh night's sleep just reread my response, post #17 to you. Reads awfully huffy, irritated and defensive. Wasn't my intent. Sorry, didn't mean to get all haughty on you.

[wizardoz]

Mr Felos writes, ‘The Jewish people, long ago in their collective consciousness, agreed to play the role of the lamb whose slaughter was necessary to shock humanity into a new moral consciousness.

WHAT??? They agreed...to be... what?? My God, I'm actually speechless at this bizarre, twisted ... ??

[thoughtomator]

On page 240 Mr Felos writes, ‘The Jewish people, long ago in their collective consciousness, agreed to play the role of the lamb whose slaughter was necessary to shock humanity into a new moral consciousness. Their sacrifice saved humanity at the brink of extinction and propelled us into a new age.... If our minds can conceive of an uplifting Holocaust, can it be so difficult to look another way at the slights and injuries and abuses we perceive were inflicted upon us?’

Someone remind me again, why Nazi references are out of bounds in this case?

[AFPhys]

Everyone - and I mean everyone - who I have spoken to now agrees with me that Terri ought to have had a new finding of fact. Many of them were not remotely aware of all the contortions and distortions by the press and the judge. Many of them did not agree with me before I discussed it with them, and many were vehement in disagreement to begin with, but found they were quite unaware of what had really happened.
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[JCEccles]

Just to underline the Clinton comparison, the Sunday Times’s Andrew Sullivan has dusted off his impeachment act and damned those of us opposed to Mrs Schiavo’s judicial murder as dogmatic extremist fundamentalist religious-right theocrats.

Sullivan has his death cult utilitarian human ethics supporters right here at FR.

There are at least two fewer Sullivan supporters here today than yesterday. The departees' feelings were hurt because "dogmatic extremist fundamentalist religious-right theocrat" social conservatives refused to pay homage to the "just following orders" (OKA "rule of law") defense in the case of the forced starvation and dehydration of a helpless innocent woman.

[exDemMom]

Me thinks he may hear voices if ya know what i mean.

Actually, he DOES hear voices. Read his description (another excerpt from the book Steyn mentioned, sorry I don't have the link) of Mrs. Browning--he "heard" her voice in his head, screaming, pleading, begging, to be killed.

[Rastus]

BTTT

[wardaddy]

well, that's probably the only thing he and I have in common...lol

only it was I who was bad actually, not the fungi

[cyborg]

LOL!!

[expatpat]

He's ahead of VDH. Just as incisive -- and a hell of a lot funnier.

[Fledermaus]

They didn't want to know because that would have required them to actually think and deny them the opporunity to mouth off platitudes and emotional vindictives.

Once her death is fait accompli the chemical imbalance in their feeble brains subside and some rational thought again gets through. But always too late.

It's pretty much the same on any issue be it Social Security, tax rates, education spending, etc.

[garbanzo]

Sullivan has his death cult utilitarian human ethics supporters right here at FR.

At the risk of sounding like I'm taking a cheap at Sullivan, for someone who complained about the "fetishization" of life, I doubt Sullivan's going off his anti-retrovirals anytime soon.

[AmishDude]

At the risk of tooting my own horn, I commented on Sullivan. There are errors in the post, though. It took longer than I wanted.

[the invisib1e hand]

In Honor of Terri Schiavo

Please let it load -- it's 11 mb.

Have headphones or sound on.

special thanks to lafroste for generous technical and web assistance.

[Fenris6]

After a fresh night's sleep just reread my response, post #17 to you. Reads awfully huffy, irritated and defensive. Wasn't my intent. Sorry, didn't mean to get all haughty on you.

Quite alright. Besides, you made my point for me ;)