tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560636882691523439.post3617184343569297924..comments2024-03-21T20:29:29.030+13:00Comments on Life Behind the <u>IR</u>on <u>D</u>rape: Lecretia Seales: What’s Worrying Me About Her High Court Case #EuthanasiaMark Hubbardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560636882691523439.post-28932505215748075602015-04-26T17:53:13.033+12:002015-04-26T17:53:13.033+12:00You're right. We will never agree :)
Email is...You're right. We will never agree :)<br /><br />Email is mhubbard@ihug.co.nz Mark Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560636882691523439.post-68969881132880369702015-04-26T15:51:57.738+12:002015-04-26T15:51:57.738+12:00Mark
I'm posting this note here rather than o...Mark<br /><br />I'm posting this note here rather than on Lindsay's blog. We must exchange email addresses some day!<br /><br />First of all, I don’t expect us to agree on this subject, but I'd like to have a respectful conversation with you never the less. You believe in the sovereignty of the individual living in a random universe where human life has no cosmic meaning or purpose beyond what we personally assign to it. <br /><br />For you, I suspect that there are no legitimate mediating institutions standing between the individual and the State, least of all the Church. By appealing to the State for the right to euthanasia you are effectively acknowledging that the state has absolute power over life and death.<br /><br />Historically, our former Judeo/Christian culture asserted that the State has limited power over life and death and is subject to a higher and external authority. <br /><br />In your world, absent the Church, it is difficult to claim that the State is acting like a tyrant, because who is to say what is cruel and oppressive? You? Stalin? Pol Pot? ISIS?<br /><br />Who are you to complain if in an over populated world, the State sets up committees to decide who should live and who should die? If we have too many accountants, why should they get more life points than artists who are in short supply? <br /><br />Especially if they are older accountants.<br /><br />We only think it could never happen because we live in a culture that is still largely informed by our Judeo/Christian traditions and values. Ask someone who lived through Pol Pot if it could ever happen, or who is living under ISIS rule right now.<br /><br />There are no limits to what those in authority will do, especially when its for the greater good. Brendan McNeillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02741263914308842497noreply@blogger.com