Posted on 11/16/2015 8:28:48 AM PST by wagglebee
And by the way, I note that from one post to the next you sneakily shifted gears, from overtly supporting active measures to help end someone's life, to expressing opposition to measures that will help keep someone alive.
It's you trying to play God, and impose your immorality on innocent victims, not me.
In America, we understand and hold to the principle that all men are created by God, endowed with the UNALIENABLE right to live.
It's pretty obvious that you don't even know what the bolded word above even means.
Nothing "sneaky" about my views. If someone is, say, a vegetable, and has made their views about being kept artificially alive under those circumstances (as I have, in writing) then that is their business. Not mine, yours, or Big Government's so long as there is clear prior consent
Let's keep it simple here. Like most pro-deathers do, you're misrepresenting the pro-life position, and advocating for murder.
Innocent victims? I'm only advocating for people to 1) make their end-of-life wishes known and 2) have those wishes carried out should that time come.
Those people, like myself, are not "victims" no matter how many ways or times you try to spin it as so.
Why, pray tell, should I waste my time arguing with someone who is not smart enough to know the difference between vegetables and human beings?
Wrong. Human government exists, before anything else, to protect the individual, God-given, UNALIENABLE right to life.
Again, it's obvious that you don't know the meaning of the word unalienable.
So they decided. You want to override their decision and murder them.
What about the person who makes it quite clear, while healthy, they want to be killed should they ever reach a point of no return but are physically unable to carry it out themselves?
Changing the subject because I set your first silly strawman on fire. Typical.
They can either man up and do it themselves or decide they want to live. Pushing it off on someone else is wrong. Even the wanabe serial killers may at some point develop a conscience.
Apparently, some people view it as "merciful" to keep those people in pain, hooked up to machines, force-feeding them, and everything else when everyone agrees death is near.
Oh! Look another silly strawman! Nobody says that any of those things should be done. In fact one thing that people tend to agree on is that anyone who is dying should be given as much pain medicine as they require to pass as gently as possible. You do not have to be hooked up to anything but a monitor and force feeding is reserved for people who are not in their right minds.
If slinging around lies makes you feel better, so be it.
After people have clearly made their wishes known, and they are suffering from an irreversible and extreme condition, it is in no way merciful to keep them alive through artificial means. It is cruelty.
I pray you never have to go through it with your own loved ones.
You’ve been here fourteen years, and don’t know that support for “euthanasia,” which is a euphemism for cold-blooded, premeditated murder, is not welcome at FR?
What’s up with that?
More rhetorical shape-shifting, and misrepresentation of the pro-life position.
Funny, I've been wondering about the same thing with someone who takes a Big Government position over the clear wishes of an individual.
Pure hogwash. The defense of the the God-given, UNALIENABLE right to life is not a “big government” position. Far from it.
What’s up with that?
It's called disagreeing on a topic. Sorry if that shatters your little self-made echo chamber.
Individual wishes do not overrule the laws of nature and nature's God, nor the principled basis of just human government. Sorry.
So, you don't support capital punishment, right?
It’s not anything of the sort. It’s simply the (correct) position of the host of this site, whose guest you are.
I’m pretty sure that if you keep advocating for murder, even out of a misplaced, gross understanding of the word “mercy,” you’re going to ride the lightning. I’ve seen it more times than I can count.
Of course I support capital punishment. Unlike yourself, I understand the reason human government was instituted by God and granted the power of the sword.
You sure have a flexible definition of "unalienable". I was previously unaware such a stark term provided such room for creative interpretation.
Are we the only species that commits suicide?
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