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That doesn’t mean we can’t explore the idea. In Australia, and I believe most places with well developed legal systems, you can get in quite a bit of trouble f
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
That doesn’t mean we can’t explore the idea.
In Australia, and I believe most places with well developed legal systems, you can get in quite a bit of trouble for mistreating an animal.
No so much if you mistreat someone under the auspice of medical or aged care.
Our culture has institutionalised the mistreatment of the terminally ill and frail-aged.
There are good arguments to be made that this should be seen as a problem that should be addressed.
- Gibbon1 8y agoBrutal but I remember reading an excerpt from an army doctor during the Napoleonic wars. He had two soldiers in his care who had been burned in a gunpowder explosion. A one point a solder came in saw them and then bluntly asked if they would live and was told that it was hopeless. The guy then went and cut both of their necks. The doctor in shock screamed at the man you monster to which them man screamed back I'm not the monster you are.
- Nasrudith 8y agoReminds me of another account of a runway crash that left pilots trapped beneath burning wreckage and the understanding that any extraction and fire fighting would take hours when even minutes of a firey agonizing death, the local commanding officer on the ground grimly shot them both with his service pistol to shorten it to seconds and there was no disciplinary action even considered.
- Gibbon1 8y agoAnother story a friends 93 year old grandfather was found unresponsive in his apartment. Rushed to the hospital and they saved his life. And when he woke up he was utterly pissed because they cheated him out of an easy death. And as a devout Mormon he was done with this world. My born in Greece high school history teacher said the Greeks didn't care how a man died. It's was how you lived that was important. I've tried to keep that in mind.