(January 28, 2015 at 1:25 pm)Lek Wrote: I don't speak for all christians. My opinions are my own. I agree that every situation should be considered according to its own circumstances. I've often contemplated what I would do if I had cancer or something and were faced with a similar decision. Of course, I would have to decide according to how God was leading me, but my own desires would be to discontinue the treatment.
And you would be entirely empowered to discontinue treatment for yourself, as a mature adult who is fully cognizant of the risks and consequences of doing so. But the child we were discussing was none of those things; when you talk about how we want to preserve life no matter what, you're not really taking into account the fact that we were talking about an individual case for which there isn't even really an argument to be made for not preserving the child's life: she wanted to live, there was no possibility of discontinuing treatment, in reality what they were trying to discontinue was pain, and I get why that would be, but it still doesn't change the fact that, unfortunately, the pain is inextricably linked to the treatment that would actually have worked. If anything, both the child and the parents fell for the fallacious idea that all treatments are equal, and went for the one that claims to be able to do the same thing as the chemo, but without the pain involved.
That's what- at least my- position is about: these parents made a choice that was objectively wrong, and as a consequence their child died. This isn't some hindsight thing, where it was only wrong in retrospect: no, this was easily verifiable before treating their child, so either they didn't do any research beforehand and their ignorance isn't forgivable, or they just didn't care about verifiable facts because Jesus, and I'm not going to give anyone a free pass on that score either. Based on all the facts, and not faith, what these people did was unequivocally the wrong thing to do, and that knowledge was easily obtainable before they committed themselves down a path that led to the death of a child. This is, quite simply, an avoidable waste of life, whether you think the kid's in heaven or not, surely she could have lived her life and then gone to heaven, rather than missing out on all the things an earthbound life could provide.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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