(November 10, 2017 at 8:45 pm)shadow Wrote:(November 10, 2017 at 8:39 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I don't have a lick of trouble letting creationists die under those circumstances.
Not a particle.
Creationists have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.
Let them DIE.
We act like this is a joke, but highly religious people sometimes commit suicide like this by not taking medications because god's going to save them. It's when they don't get treatment for their sick children for this reason that it becomes tragic.
I could see taking it to the next level (in regards to religious adults) in a more assertive form of the First Amendment guaranty of religion in that it be interpreted so as to deny treatment for their illnesses as a result of evolved pathogens unless and until they repudiate that belief.
If not, the attending physician is sullying their beliefs, whether or not the patient is consenting to it regardless.
Wish I had the cajones to extend that to their kids, but Idunno . . .
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
