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To: Ohioan
By any rational standard, at least from the standpoint of defining the characteristics of a human life, Terry was more than half dead.

That is one of the more hubristic comments I've ever read on FR.

God-like in your powers of discernment, you are...

473 posted on 05/03/2005 10:50:58 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts...to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.")
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To: EternalVigilance
God-like in your powers of discernment, you are...

I am the last one who deserves that. I am not the one demanding that artificial intervention be forced upon a poor woman to keep her alive in a form of living death.

God did not create Man to live with tubes going into him. That is a man made decision. While it is the right of one to have it done to himself--we do have free will--do not equate it with the decisions of God. That is almost blasphemous.

What distinguishes the higher forms of life--not just Man--from the lower forms--are the cerebral functions. That is the way we were all Created. Your suggestion that life and death are absolutes, is taking verbal interpretation of reality to the theatre of the absurd. Behind those words, there are millions upon millions of one cell creatures, of different varieties, in each of us; some dying every day, others being formed. The humanity part, comes in our cognitive function--which is also seen by most philosophers as the venue of the soul.

You, not I, however, seek to impose your vision of the Metaphysical on others. You, not I, would have overthrown the judicial process in this case, becuase you did not like the result. You will not find any place, where I have tried to interject a personal notion into such a case, anywhere.

483 posted on 05/03/2005 11:21:16 AM PDT by Ohioan
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