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I guess legalizing actually poisoning somebody is just a step further than legalizing selling a poison.
by Joeboy 10y ago
I guess legalizing actually poisoning somebody is just a step further than legalizing selling a poison.
- InitialLastName 10y agoI agree... all these prescription drugs are a huge problem for our society.
- Joeboy 10y agoI'm being downvoted despite what seems like a straightforward and reasonable comment, and I don't understand your response at all (is it sincere or sarcastic?). I wonder if I'm being misinterpreted somehow. The Right to Die is a controversial and emotive topic, so legislation is likely to be a gradual process. Colorado's voted to legalize one aspect, the sale of life-ending medication. Legalizing physically administering it would require a different measure, which may or may not happen at some later point.
- philipkglass 10y agoThe downvotes (not by me, BTW) are for using emotive language that criticizes by implication without advancing an actual argument. Consider this description of veterinary euthanasia: "I guess that legalizing poisoning pets was a natural outcome of allowing vets to buy poisons." If you used that language I think that most people would infer that you strongly object to veterinary euthanasia, but you haven't made an argument why it should be illegal to hasten the end.
- Joeboy 10y agoThanks for the explanation. I thought I was just speaking plainly. I am in favour of the right to die (subject to details obviously).
- InitialLastName 10y agoI misunderstood what you wrote as a reference to the last major libertarian/progressive agenda piece that Colorado legalized, which is sometimes (with weak justification) characterized as legal poison. Not my downvote, but it's possible others had the same response.
- Joeboy 10y agoAh, total cross purposes. Not what I meant at all.