(December 4, 2017 at 4:18 pm)dyresand Wrote:(December 4, 2017 at 1:44 am)Minimalist Wrote: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/high-te...way-to-go/
How DARE people take responsibility for their own lives instead of leaving it to some superstitious asswipe in a funny hat!
Give it time we will start seeing these on street corners.
I really hate memes like this. It allows fearful theists to fear change. Humans run everything. Hitler's genocide and Stalin's brutality still involved the support of theists. Can technology be used for bad? Sure? Should even atheists blindly follow or trust each other? No. But science itself is not a human, it is a method, a tool.
Our laws are what prevent abuse, common law, nothing else. Ethics is when all sides strive for compassion, empathy and minimize harm.
If someone chooses to call it quits because of terminal illness I have no problem with that. But, even with that, regulations by government need to be put in place to insure it is strictly the decision of the person with the terminal illness, and not profit motivated by the government or doctor.