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Old 03-21-2005, 01:07 AM   #823
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This is obviously tied in to the abortion debate, and so the sides are the same as in that one.
What do you mean "tied to?" For the pro-life crowd, it is the abortion debate. There is no difference.


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2. In the absence of that step, I am amazed - befuddled - by learning, once again, that the fastest way to be demonized here and in our society is to interfere with people's perception of their right (right?) to kill those whom they deem it correct to kill. Nothing divides our society as violently. The people here who come out stridently in defense of their moral certainty of the correctness of killing certain groups of other people - people who are, in other respects, generally thoughtful, gentle-seeming people - well, their resoluteness and drive on the issue are scary.
You have truly gone off the deep end. Who, exactly, is certain about the moral correctness of "killing" certain groups of other people? I have heard people question whether the decision belongs to anyone other than Mr. Schiavo, but I haven't heard a single person - here or elsewhere - who are eager to "kill" anyone.

It is truly pathetic, and demonstrative of how much you have drunk the conservative cool-aid that you can't see the difference.
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3. If TS truly is an amoeba - if there's nothing there - and this is a necessary precondition to those calling stridently for her death - what's the harm in humoring her parents, and just handing her over to them, at their expense? Someone here said "dignity", but I suspect they meant their own, as I can't see how killing a life can give that life dignity, while I can see how it might make it easier to argue that such a life is undeserving. Once they're dead, how much defense can they deserve, after all?
The harm? The harm is that it is now up to anyone who objects (be it parently, other relatives or Tom Delay) to make the most sensitive and difficult of life's decisions.

And again, who, exactly, is "stridently calling for her death?"

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4. A strong urge to fight allowing her parents to simply take her away is morbid, and bespeaks either an intensely strong ego that cannot let someone else have their way, or an intensely weak ego that couldn't stand for not getting their own.
Has anyone mentioned recently that you are a pompous ass?

And to be clear, it's your arrogance that annoys me, not some depraved desire to kill someone. But I fully expect you to ignore that as it is far easier to believe that some people are just "evil."


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Why not just stay out of it, and let a parent who is concerned and maybe hopeful do what they can? In the face of a choice of "let her live, on our dime", and "kill her now - I'm sure that's what she wants", why would we ever not simply err on the side of not killing someone?
You honestly see no danger, in one direction or the other, of changing the long standing precedent that the spouse is the next of kin?

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I truly don't get this one. Not Bob wants her dead. Ty wants her dead. RT wants her dead. They ridicule people who don't.
If this is your level of analysis, I don't know why we talk to you. You have become yet another of the pathetic socks.

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