Girl dies of stupid parents

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Oh, my bad: I thought you were against same sex marriage, and I'd recalled you making arguments against the "redefinition," of marriage in the past. Was I thinking of someone else?

I am against same sex marriage, but I don't think the government has any business saying whether we can be married or not. The government also has no right to change the definition of what marriage is. If two people of the same sex want to make an agreement between themselves similar to a marriage agreement, I can't stop them from doing so and it's also not my business. None the less I think it's wrong.

This is a case of child neglect: she's legally a child, and her parents aren't doing what's best for her, and are in fact enabling a course of action that will kill her. By every possible definition of the term, this is child neglect, unless you're using it in a way in which children aren't defined as people who aren't legal adults, and neglect as something other than the lack of action endangering a child.

I don't agree that this is neglect. Allowing a 17-year old to forgo excruciating treatment and let a disease run its course is not neglect.