Girl dies of stupid parents

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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.

Oh, okay, so it's just sophistry; you want the government to interfere with who can marry who by maintaining the legal status quo, but you don't want the hypocrisy of holding this position in contrast to your view on the other case to negatively affect your argument. Gross.

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.

A person is a minor, legally speaking, until they turn 18. Their parents have a duty of care to that child, which is not performed when the parents allow their child to die of a treatable illness. Therefore, this is a case in which the parents are neglecting their duty of care by enabling their child in her refusal to take treatment that might save her life. Additionally, it is within the government's purview to remove a child from the care of its parents in cases like this, and to give them treatment that will keep them alive.

Kids don't like doctors; if a child refused to go to the doctor for a life saving treatment because they were afraid, and the parents simply let the child waste away on that rationale, are they not guilty of acting outside of their child's best interests, and neglecting to save them from harm? Why, in your mind, does the age of that child impact this reasoning?