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At 7/8/14 03:27 AM, Entice wrote:

We're talking about people who know for a fact that they will never again get to walk around and socialize in society, who are for the rest of their lives bound to a machine that keeps them alive.

Any human who would deny that person their right to die is a piece of shit.

At 7/8/14 03:30 AM, Xenomit wrote: We're talking about people who know for a fact that they will never again get to walk around and socialize in society, who are for the rest of their lives bound to a machine that keeps them alive.

*pokes head back in thread*

I said it was fine for medical reasons you stupid cunt. I was talking about assisting suicide for someone that's fine physically.

*leaves for real*

At 7/8/14 03:33 AM, Entice wrote: I said it was fine for medical reasons you stupid cunt. I was talking about assisting suicide for someone that's fine physically.

There's nothing wrong with that either. People have just as much of a right to die as they do a right to live.

I'd like to add that mercy killing is for noobs. You got 1 shot to end your life. You gotta end it with a bang. I'm talking explosives.

At 7/8/14 03:21 AM, Entice wrote:
I just think the idea of "loosening morals regarding human life" for the nebulous goal of serving the greater good has some pretty frightening implications regarding individual freedom. Would you volunteer yourself to be killed in the name of scientific progress? I think if that ever started happening the people advocating for it certainly wouldn't be the ones getting thrown under the bus, if you know what I mean.

Oh sure. As corrupt as our current law enforcement can tend to twist, you throw that natural probability of power getting to somebody's head into an environment where the result could be "death" and shit gets dark REAL quick. Thats a valid worry, completely ignoring the ENDLESS conspiracy theories about how apparently everybody and everything powerful is out to kill us all anyway.

And of course I wouldn't volunteer getting killed in the name of scientific progress...I mean, depending on the context, I guess I might volunteer for science, and it would suck real bad if death was the result of the experiment, but I wouldn't go in with that intent. Instead, say you had a criminal on death row anyway, and some scientists need to poke around inside a human brain while its still alive. I see nothing wrong there.

Hypothetical situations aside, I'm not suggesting an extreme situation involving rampant killings...but I push back against the increasing notions and observations that society is getting squeamish about death and killings. I see a trend of censorship and "dancing around the issue" that I'm wary of a coming generation that has lived a life so averted to the concept that they can't bring themselves to cope with it......

...I'm receptive to the idea that even THAT observation may be flawed...an echo of my favorite saying "if you look for it, you'll find it" and I'm simply looking for all of the evidence thats pointing to a conclusion of a sensitive society. I guess I'm calling for an emphasis to "desensitize" ourselves of something that's genuinely nasty...a sometimes-necessary, a sometimes inevitable, and awful aspect to life that we all have to realistically mentally prepare ourselves for at some point.

Relevant.