I believe he’s stated in the past that he wouldn’t risk his life to save his own child, wouldn’t even bother unlocking a gate to free slaves (at no risk to himself), and would turn in someone who was hiding Jews during the Holocaust. (See his thread in the Pit). The guy is perfectly willing to have other people risk their lives for him, but absolutely refuses to do the same for anyone else. Dispicable.
And if you have pain that cannot be alleviated, you just “deal with it” (see his post #21): http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=737787&highlight=brittany+maynard
No compassion. No mercy. No exemptions. No mitigating circumstances. And yet he’s all about keeping people “alive” because suicide is “always wrong.” That’s Smapti’s world. It’s a scary place.
Ah. Thanks. That illuminates quite a bit.
Nobody has any moral obligation to risk their own life for the sake of someone else’s.
Yet we all have a moral obligation to live in unremitting pain and suffering to avoid making you feel bad?
We all have an obligation to live.
An obligation to whom?
No we don’t.
People and physicians have gamed the system since it was founded. Here’s an article about a hospital that was fined for essentially filing false medical information to move its patients up the list. I remembered this because I was living near Albany at the time. As I recall, a physician involved ended up having his transplant privileges revoked, so there is at least some oversight.
Why? See post #240 (which is a re-post). Then tell Patsy (if you were able to do so) why she’s obligated to live when her life is going to be nothing but pure hell.
Then you shouldn’t expect anyone to do so on your behalf, including the police, doctors, soldiers, etc.
Is Smapti really worth the effort?
This is like people rubber necking at horrible car wrecks - just gotta see every last bit of gore…
Have you seen Al “Is that a cheesecake” Gore lately? He’s as big as an energy efficient house.
I’m just going to put thishere and tiptoe away. Well actually not before saying that hard cases make bad law.
That happened three years ago and the entire second half of the thread was devoted to discussing it.
Wow, I had never seen this story when it first came around. How awful that bleeding hearts (no way around that pun) pushed for something so they could be the saviors of this boy because they know better only to show that they didn’t. It’s reflective of one side of politics today that tries to overstep and fix lives of other people to feel good about themselves no matter the outcome. When people show you who they are, believe them until they show you different.
Talk about a zombie update to a zombie thread!! Geez!!