Look bari weiss fucking sucks. My political views are absolutely fringe left wing so this is a real "the worst person you know just made a great point" moment f

Look bari weiss fucking sucks. My political views are absolutely fringe left wing so this is a real "the worst person you know just made a great point" moment for me. > The question we all should be asking is this: is it right for someone to have the freedom to choose the time and manner of their own death? That's not the question though, and the fact that it's being framed that way, in a way that almost no reasonable and compassionate person could disagree with, is part of the harm here. The question is really more like "who chooses this, and why, and what did they ask for first, and did they get it?" This is not a simplified abstract philosophical issue. My views on this come from being part of a group adjacent to and with a lot of overlap with communities of disabled people. Disabled people are diverse and have a lot of different experiences but the main way they are perceiving this is "they won't give me the support I need to live but they will give me the means to end my life." The issue here is not compassionate death for terminal patients, which again almost everyone opposing this does support in the abstract. The issue is in the actual implementation, which in its current form is frighteningly close to eugenics. Disabled people are particularly sensitive to things resembling eugenics, and they picked up on this early. The opposition to it from those groups has been principled and consistent for years now. They predicted this as the likely practical outcome and were dismissed as callous doomsayers. Now what they predicted has come true. It is time to drop the compassionate-care-for-the-terminal angle and face what is actually in front of us with this policy. Those people still do have the right to end their lives with dignity but it cannot come at the expense of other groups, which with this it does.