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To: wideawake
And the parents, in their turn, have no right to make decisions for me.

And again, that is a liberal argument that preaches YOUR opinions should trump the parents'. If I teach my children that homosexuality is wrong, and a teacher thinks that's "homophobic" and "unhealthy," are you arguing she has a right to overrule my decision?

But I guess since you, in the grand liberal tradition, know better than everyone else you have been given a moral duty to make decisions for others.

134 posted on 12/10/2007 11:19:40 AM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (Scary thought: Half of all people are dumber than the average person.)
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To: VirginiaConstitutionalist
And again, that is a liberal argument that preaches YOUR opinions should trump the parents'.

Allow me to remind you that this is not a disagreement over opinions, but a question of whether a helpless little girl actually lives or actually dies.

If she's dead, it won't be because it is someone's opinion that she is dead - she will actually be dead in fact and not just as a matter of debate.

But I guess since you, in the grand liberal tradition, know better than everyone else you have been given a moral duty to make decisions for others.

In all your grandstanding and constant use of the words "liberal" and "Hillary" you seem to have lost the thread.

If a human being is dying right before my eyes and I have the ability to help her or to deny her my help, I am making a moral decision for myself - not for others.

The little girl's parents do not have any right to make that moral decision for me.

If they want to stand idly by while their child dies, that is on them.

But they have no moral right to compel me to do the same. At that moment I will do what my conscience informs me is the right thing to do, whether her parents or the state or internet blatherers want to give me permission to do the right thing or not.

156 posted on 12/10/2007 11:33:25 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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