Personally I find the idea of assisted suicide disgusting, and I resent the over-emotional way one extreme case is being hyped-up in the media.
Do the apologists in favour of assisted suicide (Suzanne Moore twitter.com/suzanne_moore comes to mind) not stop to think what the logical result is going to be once the official taboo against murder is broken?
Once you accept that there is a standard of "a life not worth living" then you are in a relativist position where that standard can be redefined to suit personal or political expediency.
That is not a society any of us would like to live in.
Do the apologists in favour of assisted suicide (Suzanne Moore twitter.com/suzanne_moore comes to mind) not stop to think what the logical result is going to be once the official taboo against murder is broken?
Once you accept that there is a standard of "a life not worth living" then you are in a relativist position where that standard can be redefined to suit personal or political expediency.
That is not a society any of us would like to live in.
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