Can’t prosecute the dead.
LOL. This post should be bookmarked.
You say “wonderful and courageous person who lived a spirited life”. I say “one-percenter globetrotting elitist who took the coward’s way out and encouraged a culture of death in doing so”.
It terrifies me to know that it will happen. It’s not being dead that I fear - it’s the moments leading up to death.
There’s not much greater way to encourage a culture of death than by choosing the option to extend your own life by a second over avoiding the death of the entire universe.
(bolding mine) Do you have any evidence that any non-dying people have been encouraged to kill themselves by her actions?
Conceded. Let’s agree to work towards a society where no one ever has the power to do that.
I keep telling you… you need to start interposing a United Way update or something when you do that.
It’s been three days. Give it time.
Obligation ends at the point at which you can’t receive comeuppance from authority for it?
In a practical sense, yes.
And yet - Maynard chose to bring those closer. She looked at the thing you fear above absolutely everything else, something you consider to be the fear above all things, and selected to face it now.
So where does the cowardice part come in, exactly? She chose to face the greatest fear you consider to exists immediately.
Cool. So no problem with you for Maynard, then, given that with her death she’s removed herself from the authority that would obligate her to live?
Nonsense. By this definition, German generals who retreated when the situation so indicated, despite Hitler’s order to the contrary, were engaging in cowardice rather than rational tactical evaluation, which is absurd on its face.
In any case (as noted in my previous message), you already contradicted yourself even more blatantly by asserting a “should” proposition, which by definition is a moral rather than a factual statement.
You think a Kamikaze is a coward?
Also, needless suffering isn’t some goal to strive for.
Just a minute…I’m working on it…Just a few adjustments more…done!
I have fixed it so that no man has the power to extend their own life by one second using that horrific method.
By this “logic”, the value of every human intellect is cheapened by the fact that one of them (that would be you) insists on spewing out an endless stream of nonsense.
Fortunately, stupidity is not contagious, at least not the the degree of the Ebola virus as seen by famous medical expert Chris Christie.
From her perspective the obligation no longer exists because she doesn’t exist.
From our perspective, the obligation exists, and she broke it by killing herself.
She is a coward because she refused to face that which would have come to pass otherwise.
No, I think a kamikaze is stupid.
Suffering is how we know we’re alive.