Slogans are Not Logical Arguments!
The longer I live the more convinced I become that pro-death advocates are incapable of making or following a logical argument. These advocates, among others, have taken to using sloganeering in place of marshaling arguments. Buzzwords have now replaced the syllogism. The benefits of buzzword sloganeering is that it requires little to no thought to produce a response in most readers.
The most misused buzzword by euthanasia advocates is compassion. Compassion conjures up images of care, love, and sympathy. The rub is when it is used to describe the act of murdering someone and ending his/her life prematurely. I can't recall a time when the concept of murder has ever been considered compassionate. Our laws require that murders be punished, but not lauded as loving or kind.
People may grow tired of reading me call euthanasia murder, but that is exactly what it is. Compassion, mercy, and care have little to do with the rightness or wrongness of this practice. It has always been and always will be a immoral action regardless of the volume of slogans used to justify it.
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