tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post4908509340728834889..comments2008-08-18T23:08:31.498-07:00Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652wjs@wesleyjsmith.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-88213650927509824412008-08-18T23:08:00.000-07:002008-08-18T23:08:00.000-07:00Euthanasia and assisted suicide are decidedly illiberal, as Robert P. Jones, a committed liberal, demonstrated in applying Ronald Dworkin's liberty/equality maxims in his (Jones') book <I>Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality</I>. He hands Dworkin his head on a petard by applying Dworkin's own standards to the issue, and demonstrates convincingly that assisted suicide is violative of equality. <BR/><BR/>Unless you think liberalism isn't about equality any more. Alas, that's what I have concluded.Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-77771522129485777572008-08-18T20:59:00.000-07:002008-08-18T20:59:00.000-07:00"make euthanasia and assisted suicide possible to those with terminal illnesses who have made the requests in advance."<BR/><BR/>This is enabling people to make decisions on their own, finally preventing the government from tampering with private matters. It is about time that we become relieved from the prospect of dying a terrible, painful death rather than a short and painless one because no one is allowed to help us with this. It's abating unneccesary human suffering. It actually is enabling humans to be distinctively humans in chosing when and how they die, whom fellow human they help to carry out his/hers decision.<BR/>The fact that in most countries in this case one would pe punished for helping a disabled person to do what he/she wants is actually an obscenity.<BR/>It is clearly stated: "terminal illness" and "[those] who have made the requests in advance". So there's need for differentiation in judging this proposal.Gnullbegghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16855562044454369018noreply@blogger.com