Posted on 12/11/2011 2:38:05 PM PST by wagglebee
The “slippery slope” is often derided as a logical fallacy. But when one of the leading advocacy groups for euthanasia in Belgium posts an article entitled “Euthanasie: tijd voor de volgende stap, Euthanasia, time for the next step”, it’s hard not to think that it may not be so illogical after all.
The Humanistisch-Vrijzinnige Vereniging (Humanist-Liberal Association) complains that eligibility for euthanasia is far too restrictive. At the moment, only people with unbearable suffering can be euthanased. This leaves out people in irreversible comas, people with dementia, people with irreversible brain diseases and people who are under 18. This is manifestly unfair, the HVV contends.
However, this is not just a private initiative. In November Wim Distelmans, the chairman of the official Federal Committee on Euthanasia, released an open letter to Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo asking him to re-open a national debate on euthanasia. (At the time, Di Rupo was pulling a government together (this took 589 days) but now he is officially prime minister.) He and eight colleagues, like the HVV, have asked the Belgian government to update its 2002 euthanasia law. The proposed changes include these provisions:
Institut Européen de Bioéthique, Dec 6
Once the culture of death tastes blood they will ALWAYS want more.
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Bloodlust begets bloodlust.
Still don't.
Apply it to Libs (mental disease and all). Problem Solved!
Pat Buchanan wrote about this stuff 10 years ago.
There are persons with no soul out there.
The slippery slope is an empirical fact. No logic about it. What is, is.
None of this really matters, it’s just an interim government in Belgium now. 25% of the country is Islamic, so I’d expect the transition to Sharia to begin within a decade.
What we need to do is make sure NONE of their medical personnel get into our country. They are all mentally ill.
That is absolutely true. Some kind of perversion of natural law.
The slippery slope was passed miles back. They are killing the unproductive with abandon now.
As I began reading this article something occurred to me that really torqued me. Back in the early 40s we spent tons of money and our military shed a lot of blood and many gave their lives to get Hitler and the Germans out of Belgium and stop the killing. Had we known the perverse ba$tard$ were going to turn around and start HUNTING FOR reasons and excuses for KILLING THEMSELVES, we could have spared ourselves a lot of blood and treasure!
There IS a possible upside to it, though. Maybe once the squirrels who are currently infesting the Belgian genepool finish wasting themselves and have flushed out all the corrupted mentality traits, normal people with normal thought processes may once again come to the fore.
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