RE: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jack syme [mailto:drsyme@cablespeed.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:04 PM
> To: Glenn Morton; 'Bill Dozier'
> Cc: 'ASA'
> Subject: Re: cruzan v schiavo what a difference a decade makes
>
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> I think I have clearly answered your question. And I think I
> have mentioned
> more than once that comparing this to animals is not valid.
> I am not going
> to answer that again.

Fine, but it seems to me highly inconsistent to extend protection to
animals and not to humans. I might note that just because you think it
isn't a valid comparison, doesn't necessarily make it invalid. Avoiding
a cogent, clearly thought out position on the difference between cruelty
to animals vs. cruelty to humans is no different than the YECs avoiding
clearly thought out geological positions. They take the same tack you
are--I won't answer again.

Are you aware that a California city is considering making it a crime to
declaw a cat because they think it is cruel? Of course starving a human
whose inner life we know nothing of, can't be considered cruelty or we
wouldn't do it. (we don't know if she is aware but totally unable to
communicate in which case, think of the terror). She would get a better
death in Texas, if she had been a mass murderer. We consider it cruel
to electrocute a mass murderer so we give them some shots and we would
never be allowed to starve them because that is cruel and unusual
punishment. But if you are not being punished for a crime, it is ok to
starve an innocent person. What a well thought out position you and
David have. I admire the rubbery elasticity of it.

And since David decided to tell his personal story, I will tell mine. My
Dad had a massive heart attack. It was 10 minutes before the medics got
there. His brain was without oxygen that long. The paramedics got his
heart going again--but of course he wasn't there any longer. But I
could not have starved him, even though, frankly, I didn't like my dad
that much. He cut me off when I was 18 and never said boo to my three
sons (yet I continued to visit him only to teach my kids to come visit
me when I was old). Sometimes when he found out I was coming into town,
he would leave. He was a selfish old bas...d but, I wouldn't have
treated him like people want to treat this poor woman. It wouldn't be
right.
Received on Fri Mar 18 23:37:42 2005