Hiding behind a position of superiority
There is a flip side to supporting the duty to die ethic. Sure, right now it is easy to cast a death sentence on the un-born, the mentally ill, and the elderly who are sick. Right now, it is easy to point the bony finger of death at other people. What happens when years down the road those who are younger begin pointing the same finger at our current pundits of death? When one head injury, one chemical imbalance or one debilitating illness makes the same fools considered to be too expensive to maintain medical care? Or someone feels it is taking too much of their time to care for them?
Where to run, indeed, when you have closed your own escape route. G. K. Chesterton said it well, "those who marry the spirit of the age often find themselves divorced!" A quote from one, more modern, philosopher comes to mind, "I pity the fool!"
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