RE: Girl dies of stupid parents
January 26, 2015 at 5:59 pm
(This post was last modified: January 26, 2015 at 6:01 pm by Lek.)
(January 26, 2015 at 4:55 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: 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.
I do know why I value a child's life more than a dog's life. Like I said before, that child is a special creation and rates more consideration than other animals. The only reason I can see for an atheist to value her life more is that she is a body of matter that is more intelligent than other animals; and for that reason her life should be more highly protected. This is only because she differs from your pet only in degree of evolution. This mentality taken further would say that if we must kill either a dolphin or a rabbit, we should kill the rabbit because it is more intelligent.
My other point is that we have compassion on an adult who doesn't want to go through treatment and decides to let the disease run its course and die in peace. But we won't afford the same compassion to a 11 year-old or even a 17 year-old; or even an adult parent who has the best interests of their child at heart. In this case, you who haven't been through this situation claim to know better than the parents of this girl and are aware of maybe 5% of the facts of the situation, know better what course of action should have been taken.
(January 26, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Nope Wrote:(January 26, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Lek Wrote: Why is God a failure here? Obviously he wanted her to be finished with the suffering and come home.
She believed that Jesus told her that she was healed. The fact that she died is proof either that Jesus failed or her vision was false.
Lek, what if she had a vision of Buddha or a Hindu goddess and was told to give up chemo when she had over seventy percent chance of being curedr? Would you still support her parents' decision to refuse the chemo?
Yes.
(January 26, 2015 at 5:41 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: Except for when they don't.
Who decides that?
