(June 11, 2015 at 10:01 am)Rhondazvous Wrote:(June 11, 2015 at 7:50 am)robvalue Wrote: Well, even if they do get into power, they can't just rewrite stuff to be whatever they want. I wouldn't expect them to receive enough backing to do something as ridiculous as that.
Any legislation about anything could be fucked up if you have maniacs in charge with no leash.
I agree that if it is to be done at all, it needs to be incredibly carefully worded and implemented. Quite possibly it could/should be limited to definite terminal cases, and all reasonable steps taken to combat coercion. Sure, it wouldn't be perfect, no system is. But I don't think that concern justifies making every terminal patient suffer for months instead when they genuinely want to die, personally.
The reasoning here is sound. I can't argue with you. The thing is, you're telling them how they need to make it look on paper. Maybe in the UK, that's fine. But here in the states they always make things look good on paper, yet in practice things are done very differently. No matter how they word it somebody will be able to interpret it in a way that lets them do what they want to do. Only now the doctor will have the law on his side.
My other grandmother suffered a stroke and was on the machine for two weeks when the doctors started talking about pulling the plug. Her sons said no but the doctor went behind their backs and did it anyway talking about she was brain dead. She lived for two more years, paralyzed but conscious. If doctors will do this despite what the law says, imagine if they had the law on their side.
this is based on making mistakes. What mistakes are we making right now?
anti-logical Fallacies of Ambiguity
