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RE: I Can Just Hear All Churches Shitting Bricks On This One
December 4, 2017 at 5:51 am
Yeah, I think anyone in extreme suffering that has a terminal illness should be able to end their life as painlessly as possible. I don't know if I agree with the designer of the device that anyone over 70 should be able to.
However, I don't believe in jail time for people who attempt suicide. If you're that depressed, it's not going to deter you. People don't deserve to be punished for that either.
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RE: I Can Just Hear All Churches Shitting Bricks On This One
December 4, 2017 at 5:56 am
Not just that but I remember watching BBC documentary called "How to kill a human being"
see vid about executing prisoners and how it gets very painful so the guy investigated what would be the painless execution and there are ways like breathing pure nitrogen. So when he went to leading proponents of execution in prisons they told him that this painless execution is out of the question and that these people deserve to die in great pain.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: I Can Just Hear All Churches Shitting Bricks On This One
December 4, 2017 at 7:09 am
Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the Ethical Suicide Machine in "Welcome to the Monkey House" and "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater". If you opted for suicide you received a medal and a free dinner at Howard Johnson's.
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RE: I Can Just Hear All Churches Shitting Bricks On This One
December 4, 2017 at 7:49 am
(December 4, 2017 at 7:09 am)chimp3 Wrote: Kurt Vonnegut wrote about the Ethical Suicide Machine in "Welcome to the Monkey House" and "God Bless You Mr. Rosewater". If you opted for suicide you received a medal and a free dinner at Howard Johnson's.
Was that before or after???
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RE: I Can Just Hear All Churches Shitting Bricks On This One
December 4, 2017 at 7:53 am
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(December 4, 2017 at 1:44 am)Minimalist Wrote: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/high-te...way-to-go/
Quote:High-tech suicide machine makes death a painless, peaceful, optimal way to go
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Hmmm... I'd still like to have the "clumsy bludgeoning" option...
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