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But that's not an argument against assisted suicide. If you don't like the choices people are making, absolutely offer them more options so they can choose othe

But that's not an argument against assisted suicide. If you don't like the choices people are making, absolutely offer them more options so they can choose otherwise. But if there is no willingness to fund these alternatives, forcing people to continue to suffer so that your aesthetic sense isn't offended isn't justifiable.

kneebonian 4y ago
There is a difference between the argument against assisted suicide and an argument against the way Canada is doing assisted suicide. This article is about the latter not the former.
- hackinthebochs 4y ago
  The article isn't really an argument against it either. It's simply presenting events with the understanding that people will see it as self-evidently unconscionable. I'm interested in arguments for this underlying assumption.
tsimionescu 4y ago
My fear is governments instituting such programs instead of offering more choices, and perhaps even then looking at statistics skewed by assisted suicide to argue against instituting other programs. Personally, I think that in any wealthy country, even one person feeling that their life isn't worth continuing for purely economic reasons should be considered a failure of the entire government. I of course know we are nowhere near such an attitude being mainstream, but that is where my point is coming from. I am very much afraid of right-wing governments feeling more and more empowered to say "if they don't like their living conditions, they can just ask for assisted suicide" as the ultimate alternbcative to any social investment.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  > right-wing governments feeling more and more empowered to say "if they don't like their living conditions, they can just ask for assisted suicide" Wait, isn't the right wing very much against assisted suicide in all forms?
  - tsimionescu 4y ago
    There are many aspects of right-wing thinking (just as left-wing) and the more capitalist-libertarian or anarcho-capitalist ones (that are some of the most popular) are much less bothered by assisted suicide than by social spending.

kneebonian 4y ago

There is a difference between the argument against assisted suicide and an argument against the way Canada is doing assisted suicide. This article is about the latter not the former.

hackinthebochs 4y ago
The article isn't really an argument against it either. It's simply presenting events with the understanding that people will see it as self-evidently unconscionable. I'm interested in arguments for this underlying assumption.

tsimionescu 4y ago

My fear is governments instituting such programs instead of offering more choices, and perhaps even then looking at statistics skewed by assisted suicide to argue against instituting other programs. Personally, I think that in any wealthy country, even one person feeling that their life isn't worth continuing for purely economic reasons should be considered a failure of the entire government. I of course know we are nowhere near such an attitude being mainstream, but that is where my point is coming from. I am very much afraid of right-wing governments feeling more and more empowered to say "if they don't like their living conditions, they can just ask for assisted suicide" as the ultimate alternbcative to any social investment.

josephcsible 4y ago
> right-wing governments feeling more and more empowered to say "if they don't like their living conditions, they can just ask for assisted suicide" Wait, isn't the right wing very much against assisted suicide in all forms?
- tsimionescu 4y ago
  There are many aspects of right-wing thinking (just as left-wing) and the more capitalist-libertarian or anarcho-capitalist ones (that are some of the most popular) are much less bothered by assisted suicide than by social spending.