RE: Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?
October 2, 2012 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2012 at 10:57 am by Something completely different.)
(October 2, 2012 at 10:36 am)Tiberius Wrote: If a person is judged to be suffering from a mental illness, then it is reasonable for the government to intervene. However, if a person is found to be sane, and simply wants to end their life, whether it be for reasons of euthanasia or others, the government should let them.
I understand and support the proposal to have the option of euthenisia for people suffering of illnes were a chance of survival is 0 and ending that persons life would result in far less suffering for that individual.
But were are the lines between sanity and insanity? A fit healthy person with no medical issues wants to kill himself? let him? it doesn`t sound reasonable in any way to me.
(October 2, 2012 at 10:36 am)Tiberius Wrote: You are wrong. No libertarian proposes the abolishment of all social services. We propose that they are left to private businesses and charities to control, rather than the government.
But judging from the WHO`s list of nations with the best healthcaresystems, the United States wich have a private-provider system are ranked 37, and the nations ranked between 1-36 are with the exception of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Singapure, United Arab Emirates and Morocco democracies and not (as some republican liberterians claim) communist nations. Of wich most, including the top 10 have socialised healthcare providers. Cant I also make a "moral" argument on the base that a private insurance company would probably be more interested in it`s profits rather then in the health of it`s costumers, wich is (since 1948) a basic human right. So can I trust a private company with providing the essential services wich are needed to uphold a human right?
A viable question since a lot of companies have outsourced their production into nations where laws on laborconditions dont exist and in history many companies have oposed the interduction of such laws in western sociaty.
.edit: correction: The right to Health is a human right since 1948.