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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (7366)	3/5/2001 12:11:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

My gosh, you take me back thirty plus years. These are much like the questions I, as a draft refusing pacifist, faced from draft board, judge, military people, etc. all the time. "You say you won't kill. Suppose a commie (this was at the height of the red menace, remember, shortly after the Cuban missile "crisis") has machine gun pointed at your family and is about to open fire on them, and you are chained to the wall but managed to get your hands on a pistol and have to decide whether to kill the soldier to save your family or let the soldier kill your family. What do you do?" Obviously there is no good answer to the question. Or if there is one, I never found it. But your questions are in line with that dilemma.

To: Neocon who wrote (7366)	3/5/2001 8:43:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

To me, then, the situation with assisted suicide is only a little better, and it is very dubious, if understandable, to acquiesce to such a request......... I don't know what to say. In our earlier discussions you have demonstrated an ear for perspectives not your own, but not on this one. Why would you give examples of premature murder when I'm talking about suicide? It's hard for me to understand why a remotely humane human would want another human or other animal to suffer unnecessarily. The only reason I've ever heard is the religious one which says it's wrong to not wait for God's choice of a time of death. Is that where you're coming from on this? Or are you concerned about a slippery slope regarding the value society puts on life? Karen