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- From: ivaliote@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lotus )
- Subject: Re: Christian Pro-Choicers (was Re: An Abortion Argument that has nothing to do with OT and NT)
- Message-ID: <C1E33r.MzM@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1993Jan20.011738.26418@Princeton.EDU> <C17ys0.3IF@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1993Jan21.220623.11480@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <C1Bw00.G0L@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:02:01 GMT
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- hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
- >>Perhaps you should go sit with a few dying cancer patients. Try bone
- >>cancer, for starters. Then you can graduate to some of the nastier
- >>varieties.
- >I have. Yet, there is not way I would have killed this person. even if
- >someone is dying in pain, there is no right to murder.
- If the person wants it, how is it murder? And are wars allowed just because
- they have political reasoning? They too are murder, are they not?
-
- >This particular
- >individual chose not to go to the hospital and take the pain medication
- >or undergo hopeless operations. I can respect that decision. What I could
- >not do is kill someone because they are in pain. People are not animals to
- >be put our of their misery. If I were dying in agony, I would not want to
- >have my family kill me. I would not want that on their consciences for hte
- >rest of their lives. I would not want to die knowing that my family had
- >killed me.
- What if you did, though? Would that be o.k. then?
-
- >God can and has healed people in the last stages of cancer. Even if I knew
- >for sure that God would not heal someone in my family, I could not kill them.
-
- I respect that. That doesn't mean it should be illegal, though, does it. It
- certainly doesn't follow naturally. I can see why you can't do it. But what if
- I can, and my family members asks me to?
-
- ______________
- Matt Ivaliotes a.k.a. Lotus
- ivaliote@ux1 lotus@uiuc
-