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To: Neocon who wrote (4717)2/21/2003 4:15:07 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7720
 
I do not see sufficient grounds to put assisted suicide into the class of things where interdiction would be worse than
permission.


I guess as a basic libertarian, I frame the issue as what compelling governmental interest is there in interfering with the freedom of person A to die and person B to help them. I don't see that government has a compelling interest there, so I think it's wrong for government to intervene at all.