"Now being human isn't enough to have rights."
Correct. Something has to make a DIFFERENCE to someone. In other words you must be capable of an INTEREST in your life. Nobody can impose rights on anyone. The use of initiated force is immoral. So in the case of someone born (say) without a brain...they have no rights, per se. They are the property of the parents (first mortgage) and of the State (second mortgage). Civilized society has decided (and I think properly so) that even insentient property has some value (to us)--merely in terms of our sense of humanity and our awe of the gift of life. Therefore, although the person is incapable of making a value judgement), we, nevertheless, find it immoral to take the default case of extinction without impartial and professional opinion provided as to "hopelessness". I am speaking, of course, of humans lacking any capacity for interest in the matter.
In the case of people with capacity, they are of course free to choose either life or death and no other human has a right to obstruct that choice.
These are the moral laws and the legal laws we follow, just as we follow the laws of the Canadian Human Rights Act here in Canada. Do you have any objections, Christian Disgrace??
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