(October 18, 2011 at 7:02 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: So same question to you again: does a parasitic dependancy lessen the value of the person?
Subjectively, yes. I am pro-capital punishment in certain circumstances. Prison, jail, rehab, and counseling are other alternatives for lesser evils. If they are part of the problem and asking for help, good, let us help them. If they just like being part of the problem or are for some reason incapable of not being part of the problem, that lessens the status in my mind of their value to society and as a person.
Look at the condition Stephen Hawking is in and yet he is able to (albeit subjectively) contribute to society.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
