A very strange article
This is a very strange article.
No, "the family" should not have made "the decision" in the Schaivo case. There was no ethically legitimate decision to be made: you don't kill somebody just because they're brain-damaged, no matter how brain-damaged they are- unless you work at a concentration camp!
The author is certainly right about the horrible nature of death by starvation, but I am chilled to the bone by his response: in effect, that we should use lethal injection! Talk about "warped ethics!"
And I have never read words more chilling than the last sentence in this article. Tell me the author intended them to be satirical. Please.
There is one good thing about this article, though: at least the author has the intellectual integrity to confront the fact that whether we're talking about starvation or lethal injection, what we're talking about here is not "letting people die," but killing them!
No, "the family" should not have made "the decision" in the Schaivo case. There was no ethically legitimate decision to be made: you don't kill somebody just because they're brain-damaged, no matter how brain-damaged they are- unless you work at a concentration camp!
The author is certainly right about the horrible nature of death by starvation, but I am chilled to the bone by his response: in effect, that we should use lethal injection! Talk about "warped ethics!"
And I have never read words more chilling than the last sentence in this article. Tell me the author intended them to be satirical. Please.
There is one good thing about this article, though: at least the author has the intellectual integrity to confront the fact that whether we're talking about starvation or lethal injection, what we're talking about here is not "letting people die," but killing them!
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