Posted on 11/16/2015 8:28:48 AM PST by wagglebee
No, I don’t. I simply understand the meaning of the word. You do not.
Let’s review:
Murder is explicitly and imperatively excluded by God’s commands to all mankind.
Murder is explicitly and imperatively excluded by the laws of nature.
Murder is explicitly and imperatively excluded by our national charter and its explication of natural law principles.
Murder is explicitly and imperatively excluded by multiple amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of our land.
Murder is explicitly and imperatively excluded by the constitutions of all of the states in America.
“Assisted suicide” is murder.
It’s pretty simple.
: impossible to take away or give up
Full Definition of INALIENABLE
: incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred
It's not. It's the first step on the slippery slope of government mandated elimination of the old and weak who no longer contribute to society. Liberals will tell you that it's unfair that old folks are hoarding all the money and stuff while young people are forced to actually work to get money.
“Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.”
—Sir William Blackstone
You mean like if someone were to say - if I end up in a horrible state, and it is clear I will die, then please assist me in ending my life instead of letting me suffer? That kind of forfeiture?
No. It refers to those who have committed a capital offense.
No one has a right to ask someone else to murder them.
And they have no right to murder themselves.
From a practical point of view, there can NEVER be a "right to die" because we DO NOT have a moral claim on death - death has a claim on US.
You think that the unalienable right to life is a "religious view"? That's odd.
Presumably your "religious views" (or lack thereof) permit euthanasia, do they permit abortion as well? And if not, why not?
Yet, you think Big Government should impose them on others.
Government EXISTS to protect our right, chief among them is life.
Humanists of all sorts, including those of the libertarian bent, make the fatal error of believing that they own themselves, when in fact it’s not true. They belong to God, and are subject to His laws, whether they will face up to it or not.
Thank God America’s founders understood the truth of this matter perfectly well.
Their fallacious reasoning is along the same lines as someone deciding that he was "gravity atheist" and jumping off of a twenty story building because he didn't believe that he was subject to the laws of gravity.
No. I believe using the force of Big Government to tell someone they cannot have someone assist them to terminate their life when that is their wish, and they are terminally ill, because it is your - but not their - religious view is wrong.
Presumably your "religious views" (or lack thereof) permit euthanasia, do they permit abortion as well? And if not, why not?
What a silly question. Abortion involves the life of someone who cannot consent. Of course it is wrong. Nice try, though.
So, you believe that unalienable doesn't actually mean unalienable. You seem to believe in a government that is permitted to strip us of our rights for any reason at all.
What a silly question. Abortion involves the life of someone who cannot consent. Of course it is wrong. Nice try, though.
So killing is about consent and you would otherwise have no problems with abortion? How odd.
Assisted suicide is tantamount to assisted MURDER. If someone is determined to die, they can do it themselves. If they can’t do it themselves, they are in no condition to render a sound judgement from the get go. I’m not advocating that anyone should ever do this, as life is a gift from God. I am merely pointing out the inherent foolishness of so-called “assisted suicide”
If there is no longer an understanding that the right to life is God-given and therefore unalienable, and that all innocent persons must be protected equally in their supreme unalienable right, the right to live, there is no longer any check on Big Government. At that point any barbarity is possible.
By the way, I note that you continue to ignore the actual meaning of the word unalienable.
Well even psycho Killers need a J O B:-)
Look at europe where “assisted suicide” became euthanasia against the patients will.
Which is exactly what will happen here.
sadly, yes
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