RE: Removing treatment by democratic consensus as default (living wills)
October 5, 2022 at 12:42 pm
(October 5, 2022 at 12:24 pm)Duty Wrote:(October 5, 2022 at 12:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: A difference which makes no difference IS no difference. It all boils down to caregivers making the decision to kill people.
Boru
Rather the authorities deduce, through asking the general population what their wishes would be if they were paralysed and unable to communicate, that the patient would want to die.
How the everlasting fuck does the general population know what a particular patient wants?
Let’s imagine that a voter referendum splits 70/30 in favour of your plan, so it gets enacted into law. That means 3 out of 10 people who become locked in are going to be killed against their wishes. I’m no lawyer, but I’m fairly certain that killing someone who doesn’t want to be killed is called ‘murder’.
Your estimate that 99 or 100% of the gen pop would agree with your plan is simply wishful thinking.
Boru
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