Girl dies of stupid parents

[Mister Agenda]

Is it okay to put a dog down or let the disease run its course, even though he could be healed with chemo?

You can do anything you want short of animal cruelty to your dog. Your dog is livestock, it's property. How you feel about your dog personally is your own business...and ultimately, your dog's fate is your business, not your dog's. I like dogs, but there's such a thing as being too sentimental. A poor family shouldn't spend a lot of money on cancer treatments for a dog.

Or are we morally obligated to put him through the treatment?

No you're not. No matter what you do, your dog's life isn't going to be that different from any other dog's. It's not going to join the ballet or write poetry in Paris someday or be admired for how well it treats its employees. A dog's life has value, but not as much value as the life of a human child.

Is it okay to put him down rather that put him through the painful therapy, even if he could survive with the treatment?

Yes, it is, but not because we value the dog's life more, but because we value it less.

He's not able to make his own choices, but we have compassion on him.

And he never will be able to make his own choices, and never will be able to understand why he suffers. Whether the dog lives or dies almost entirely depends on what resources we are willing to expend keeping it alive and why. The dog has no say at all. If we think it should die, we'll put it to death no matter how much it might want to live.

Why do we allow adults to avoid excruciating treatment, even if they could survive with the treatment, but we force children to undergo the same painful treatments no matter what?

Clearly, in Canada they don't force children to undergo the same painful treatments. So a girl whose best chance at living a full life (modern leukemia treatments are amazing) was chemo never got a chance to live it because her parents tried to save her with a treatment that has never been known to save anyone from leukemia, ever. If Jesus wanted her home, he should have just taken her.

And that leaves people like you wondering why we would want to save a child's life more than we would want to save a dog's.

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Lek.... you fucking moron.........

Dyresand, if you were my only example of an atheist, I'd rather kill myself than become an atheist.

A tie for classiness there.

Lek, nothing against you, but I hope you don't think anyone here wants you to become an atheist. I would be fairly pleased if you gained an intuitive understanding of why a child's life might be considered more valuable than a dog's, and thrilled if you started applying critical thinking consistently, but I wouldn't want you to become an atheist without clearing those hurdles first.