I'm surprised, given what you usually write, at the incredibly shallow treatment of this topic you have provided. Assisted suicide is not about killing old people because they have a sad life. It's about people with serious disease, or living in extreme chronic pain, for example, choosing to end their suffering. Be better.
That is not the argument I am responding to. The article is question makes the claims I argue against. It is a significant part of the assisted suicide movement.
we can't ask to be a slave because slavery is worse than death, right? so why can't we be asked to be put to death if we are in an irreversible worse-than-death state?
Excellently argued. I have rather been wondering at what point the Common Reader would turn to politics, or at least the issues of the day.
Thanks! There won’t be lots of politics but there will be more “ideas”
even if women who have an abortion have one for an immoral reason, it should still be legal, right? you don't have to be able to argue for your rights
I'm surprised, given what you usually write, at the incredibly shallow treatment of this topic you have provided. Assisted suicide is not about killing old people because they have a sad life. It's about people with serious disease, or living in extreme chronic pain, for example, choosing to end their suffering. Be better.
That is not the argument I am responding to. The article is question makes the claims I argue against. It is a significant part of the assisted suicide movement.
"Significant"? Based on what evidence. I think you do a disservice to an important option that people should have the right to choose.
we can't ask to be a slave because slavery is worse than death, right? so why can't we be asked to be put to death if we are in an irreversible worse-than-death state?
Who wrote the first extract you quote?
Someone in the new statesman
JSM wouldn't like how things are now, except that we don't subjugate women the way he complained about in print then.