Posted on 06/03/2011 10:50:23 AM PDT by SmithL
So, when I put my dog down; that wasn't an act of love?
Consider, we are at war. I am captured. The Islamists are burning me alive, at the stake. There are 50 of them dancing around the bonfire at my feet. The fire is lit, and I'm being burned to death .
You are secreted 200 yards away with a sniper rifle. Do you let me scream and die slowly; or do you say a quick prayer, and show me mercy? Is that murder? How about if I cry out to you and say "Finish me"? Is that murder, or compassion?
In a very real sense, Dr. Kevorkian was in this scenario. So, would you let someone be eaten by flames, burned alive; or would you be merciful and take a single shot and end my suffering?
Anyone capable of getting TO Kevorkian, was capable enough to end their own life if they really wanted to.
There is no such thing as assisted suicide. You help kill someone, it's murder and you become a murderer.
Satan protects his own. Professional courtesy.
Why should Satan mess with an accomplice like that to give him so much business?
We're not talking about war.
Ah...no, it hasn’t. I respectfully disagree with your assertion.
No, to recap, you said you would murder someone for trying to save your life.
What an attitude. Would you murder someone who tried to keep you from killing yourself? ` trisham, post 58Without a hesitation.
My choice, not yours. Never was, never will be.
And I’ll bet, that despite your posturing; if you were faced with a dose of reality, you would make the exact same decision. ~ hodar, post 60
So not only did you say you would commit murder to prevent someone from saving your life, you accused trisham of agreeing with your satanic views. At no time did you ever state that you would kill, if someone was preventing you from exercising the most basic and fundamental right you have. You said you would commit murder to prevent someone from securing your most basic and fundamental right.
You simply do not know what you are talking about...but you entitled to your opinion, regardless of how silly, biased, and uninformed it is.
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Exactly right.
I’m not surprised that you disagree with me. You’ve already stated your position, in favor of murder. I agree with God.
I’ve been called worse, but I comfort myself in knowing that the name caller, tho well-intentioned and of high spirit, is most assuredly both uninformed and overly emotional.
You are entitled to your opinion...as I am to mine.
You’re also entitled to the consequences of your opinion. But you’re not entitled to subvert this nation, under God, to fulfill your satanic purposes.
You can't be serious? His disgust at the greedy medical profession? Someone who kills for money?
There are better ways to ease suffering than killing people. It's called pain medication.
If he was really looking to help people die with dignity, he wouldn't be murdering them. He'd have been advocating for better end of life care, including pain medications.
He lived so long because Satan protects his most useful tools. Looks like you have a long one ahead of you as well.
Emotionalism? Because I detest the policy of allowing people to murder other people in the name of “doctor assisted suicide”?
Whatever comfort you may derive from word jugglery will be cold comfort indeed.
My choice, not yours. Never was, never will be.
And I’ll bet, that despite your posturing; if you were faced with a dose of reality, you would make the exact same decision.
You're a complete hypocrite then.
You're waxing eloquent about how your life is yours and nobody has the right to tell you what to do with it concerning your end, and yet you are willing to snuff out the life of another human being against their wishes.
The decision to end their life should be theirs, not yours, according to your own words. Their choice, not yours.
You are as bad as kevorkian; despicable.
Worse, because Kevorkian didn’t hide the fact that he was morbidly obsesed with death. He loved death. He painted gruesome pictures about death. No pretense about “compassion”.
Then you are a liar as well because just upthread you said you'd kill without hesitation someone who was trying t o save your life out of compassion.
“Your prattle about “freedom” really means “I want Big Mommy Government to put the stamp of approval on a private decision and make it all okay”.”
No, my prattle about freedom really means that I’m not asking the government OR you to put a stamp of approval or disapproval on any decision I make about ending my own life OR who I might ask to help me do it...and if I want to do it in some manner that’s less painful than eating my gun that’s none of your damn business nor the goverment’s. Stick your nose somewhere else, hypocrite.
Hypocites like you want to involve the Big Huge Nanny Government in peoples’ personal affairs.
You can try to wiggle out of it but you fool no one unless you’re fooling yourself.
There are books published about all manner of ways to off yourself. Be my guest, you have the freedom right now to end your earthly existence all kinds of ways.
But no, you want laws enabling the “medical profession” to hold your widdle hand and give the medical profession stamp of approval to your suicide.
Tsk tsk, such a girlie wimp.
“There are better ways to ease suffering than killing people. It’s called pain medication.”
If only you were right. There is intractable pain - for example, bone pain from prostate cancer (which I have, although it hasn’t progressed to the bone pain stage so far). It ain’t that simple when you’re in the middle of it.
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