(January 25, 2015 at 3:09 pm)Lek Wrote: No. If you have a sick dog and you have a vet put him down, you won't be charged with a crime.
If you have a sick dog and the illness has a cure with a high chance of success, and you allow the dog to get sicker and sicker- which, to be clear, is what's actually happening here- then you can be charged with animal abuse. Putting down a dog and what's happening in either of these cases is not remotely similar; in one you are reducing the pain of an animal with little to no chance of survival, and in the other two you're barring people with a high chance of survival from easily obtainable medicine, condemning them both to a lingering, painful death of their illnesses when we know they aren't fully mentally equipped to make the decision themselves, all because the treatment that will allow them life is temporarily painful. And all in aid of... what, exactly? A heaven that you only want to believe is real, without any evidence to show for it?
Let me ask you this, before you make any more malformed comparisons: do you think I should be arrested and imprisoned for murdering you? I mean, in your worldview I've done you a favor, right? What if I murdered some children, for the same rationale? Are you in favor of the dismantling of murder laws for children? Or is your thinking inconsistent, and only down to convenience?
Quote: No, I don't support euthanasia for humans.
Ah, so on the one hand we treat dogs better than people by allowing them to die, but at the same time you just kinda want humans to die in agony and despair rather than being given the same kind, simple exit. Bloody hell, Lek, which position do you want to hold? Because holding both at once is just nonsensical.
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