Bombadil
1d ago
Oh yeah, true. Nice catch. Doesn't change the overall point though, that this is what euthanasia is supposed to be.
Bombadil
1d ago
Agreed. Modern medicine cannot cure everything. Sometimes accepting death is better than elongating the suffering.
Yeah, born 26 weeks early and with severe brain damage. Also visual impairments, cerebral palsy, and untreatable epileptic seizures. The kid could be kept alive through likely expensive and invasive means, with no hope of alleviating the suffering. But that seems largely pointless. Based on the article, this is not a case that modern medicine is capable of treating, so instead the decision was made to end the life as humanely as possible.
Bombadil
1d ago
Maybe in the US, where Black in general has been its own distinct category. But in Europe, southern Europeans were seen as darker skinned, more temperamental, and just overall different from those in the north or west. People specifically started worrying about black people once we saw immigration from the middle east and Africa.
So this may simply be a cultural issue, where an American places different meanings on "Black" and "White" than Europeans do.
Bombadil
2d ago
Are you trying to be difficult, or do you really not see how the analogy obviously fails?
Bombadil
2d ago
rape
Illegal
banning birth control
not a thing in the west.
lethal injection
Punishment for severe crimes. Not something you can just sign your way into.
Bombadil
2d ago
Different situations entirely. A contract with a private couple is not a contract with the government. And medical procedures forced upon conscripts are generally limited to vaccines.
This is "deal with the devil" territory. Literally selling your unborn child and signing away your bodily autonomy. Let's hope she at least got the ability to spin straw into gold out of it.
Bombadil
2d ago
Bodily autonomy is generally considered quite important and not something that can be signed away.
They stop improving their models. If they genuinely believe there is a double digit percentage risk that what they build will destroy humanity, then they should stop building it.
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