the feeding tube
Remind me: Why don't we just stop supplying food to convicts on death row after their opportunities for appeal have been exhausted, and let them slowly starve to death? Oh yea, because it's inhumane.
Why is forced starvation, like what was done to prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, something which should not even be performed on prisoners of war?
Oh yea, because it's considered to be a form of torture.
Why do some people go to jail for keeping on their property a bunch of washed-up greyhounds which are nearly dying due to general negligence and undernourishment?*
Is it because it's just mean?
So, in light of this, shouldn't Terry Schiavo's estranged husband and the federal judge who ixnayed her family's request to spare her life show a little more "compassion" and at least give her a lethal injection or strangle her or something? (Maybe strap plastic wrap over her nose and mouth and "let nature run its course"?)
Oh no, because some simple-minded folk might fail to make the nuanced distinction between such an act of liberation and regular old murder.
*And should I turn myself in to a jail for my failure to use my resources to feed the starving poor people in Africa whom I have knowledge of?
posted by CoreFire at 12:47 AM
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P.S.- Oh, sorry, "murder" is such a loaded term. When the State orders the death of someone, it's more aptly called "execution."
Okay, I must be missing something because I have NO idea what Kev J Daniels is all about there. Anyways, back to that poor woman whom they are starving to death because her husband said so, that's why. Hey, wasn't he the one who has a new girlfriend and some kids? And isn't he the one who gets some cold cash when she dies? Hmmm...I smell a rat. Make that several rats.
dotbar: Yea, as Kevin pointed out, the money is apparently not the deal. He's even (apparently) gotten offers of millions of dollars from other people, just to let her live.
kev: interesting idea about the abuse, but from what I understand she was totally lobotomized, so there's no danger of her ever speaking again.
ellen: Good questions. I think a few of them were dealth with in a fascinating way in this song. Yea, prolonging "existence" and prolonging "life" need not be equivocated. Hmmm.
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