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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (77619)10/16/2003 7:50:45 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
I was peppered with questions about that over lunch. And this from the guy who holds my medical power of attorney. He was outraged about it. I didn't know enough about it to hold up my end of the conversation.

Have you found out enough yet to hold up your end of a discussion, whatever that end might be?

If we're going to discuss this as a group here on SI we need to understand up front that we will not come to a resolution, and that to have any such aim would be futile. The best we can do is to understand the dymanics, explore the implications of various moral and ethical positions, and try to comprehend why people might feel the way they do. But agreement? Never. There are certain issues on which there simply cannot and will not in our lifetimes be agreement. (I would have said ever, but there may be breakthroughs in the next few thousand years which allow us actually to reach agreement.)

One thing that worries me -- how do they KNOW that she isn't feeling pain or deprivation? People who are dying that way don't have the ability to say whether or not they are in pain. Somehow starving to death seems to me a particularly gruesome way to die. If I REALLY don't know it's happening, that's one thing. But if deep down inside I knew but couldn't express that knowledge to those who were starving me, I for one would be mighty upset.
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