Comments on: WHAT SLIPPERY SLOPE?

By: bob schwalbaum

bob schwalbaum — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:11:58 +0000

As a 77-year old who last year went through a horrendous series of surgeries.. ending up minus one leg.. I can tell you very clearly that is is NOT irrational to think about suicide. When I see MEDICARE being obliterated by health care for old folks.. there will be NOTHING left for my children. I can estimate that my various illnesses over the past five years have cost the helath care system well in excess of $300,000. We are coming to a time when suicide will become a reasonable alernative to those of us who care about the future for our children.

By: mark30339

mark30339 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:39:29 +0000

Gerald Ford said that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you’ve got. Who knows, nationalized healthcare may be a Stalinist tactic to cull the social security herd so the books can balance. With time and gradual conditioning, human life can become such an ordinary thing to waste. You’ll know it’s on when they come for the traditional Catholics, so only the Biden/Pelosi/Notre Dame pretenders remain.
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Values in politics come down to the most basic of questions: is life sacred or not? One side demands universal respect for life. The other prefers “life for me, but not for thee.”

By: bsjones

bsjones — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:20:13 +0000

Here is a link to one of the most liberal radio programs on NPR called “Fresh Air”:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102638208

The link is to an interview with a liberal doctor who thinks the problem with medicine is TOO MUCH end of life care.

Listen and hear the Liberal perspective on “end of life” medicine.

WARNING: This show is so Liberal, Bill O’Reilly actually terminated his interview because of the Liberal bias the reporter insisted on forcing down O’Reilly’s throat.

By: Ron Russell

Ron Russell — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:35:52 +0000

Soylent Green and Logan’s Run and some other films are great example of an all powerful government controling the lives of its citizens. Politicians always think they and they alone have the solutions and the masses are simply dumb and uninformed so they must show the way. Its not what governments stand for, but how much power we allow them to accumulate—the more power they get the more they will want. Its just the nature of the beast. The beast being government. The bigger the government the smaller and smaller the individual becomes, his rights become fewer as the government grows. Anyone who thinks differently on this is living in a fools world.

By: Surabaya Stew

Surabaya Stew — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:37:20 +0000

Why do healthy people need help with suicide? I understand guns are hard to come by in Europe, but can’t they just jump of a bridge?

By: bsjones

bsjones — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:05:05 +0000

Rick,
I think you are right. This scenario is a bit of a stretch. For now…..

By: bsjones

bsjones — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:02:51 +0000

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TOWARDS FOX NEWS
In our system, the people who make regulations and laws are elected representatives. If you do not want government sponsored suicide clinics forcing citizens to commit suicide so the dead can be turned into colorful food substances, do not vote for legislators who want to enact a law allowing government suicide clinics that use the dead bodies to make colorful food substances.

In the words of Glenn Beck, “We surround them, they do not surround us (holds back tears) ….

By: Christopher Hamilton

Christopher Hamilton — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:49:39 +0000

Great blog!

By: jackson1234

jackson1234 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:19:21 +0000

It isn’t so much about rationality as it is about rationing. The Left has a legitimate point that health care rationing already occurs via HMO’s. But this is like their complaints about Bush’s deficits, which have been dwarfed by the Democratic spending orgy so quickly it has become a ludicrous comparison. Once the government fully takes over health care, rationing will be so balls to the wall memories of HMO’s will bring a tear to the eye.

Assisted suicide is the logical extension of a system that can only provide so little care that in the end people die as they await their turn on the table. Your concerns about people with depression are warranted, of course, but this Brave New World has to break a few eggs and all. Not to go off on a tangent, but echoes of the Weimar Republic can be heard throughout the West now. The eugenics and euthanasia of that hyperinflated era may become contemporary “necessities.”

By: Dale in NJ

Dale in NJ — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:18:04 +0000

Rick,

If you ever saw the movie “Logan’s Run” you will see the logical consequence of government getting involved and engineering society.