“Assisted suicide” is not the “slippery slope” to anywhere. It, along with the slaughter of children in the womb, the elevation of insane sexual obsession to a celebrated “right” and the gradual dilution and elimination of a higher morality from public life (leading inevitably to its loss in private life) is the bottom of the slope. Now all that can happen is we expand murder in the name of freedom and compassion and persecute those who hold to a higher moral standard in the name of tolerance.
A film I include among my favorites is “Judgment at Nuremburg”. In it the defendants - all judges in the Nazi system - are confronted with evidence of the death camps and the slaughter of millions of innocent people. At the very end of the film one of the defendants, after being found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, tells the judge who sentenced him that “..all those millions of people, I never thought it would come to that. You must believe me!” and the judge responds “Herr Janig, it came to that the first time you sentenced a man to death whom you knew to be innocent”.
We have passed the “I never knew it would come to that” point long ago. We have run out of slippery slope.
You are very right. We are past the slippery slope.
My sister, a staunch liberal, has read quite a few books about the rise of Hitler.
She has often mentioned she is amazed that the German people could stoop so low as to go along with Hitler.
When Terri was being killed, I told my sister about the need to stand up, nowdays, and declare the worth of every human life.
She couldn’t see the similarity to 1930’s Germany.