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HN's attitude on this stuff is pretty weird to me. Articles about Canada's assisted dying program have been repeatedly posted here, and all of them seem to be
by matthewmacleod 4y ago
HN's attitude on this stuff is pretty weird to me.
Articles about Canada's assisted dying program have been repeatedly posted here, and all of them seem to be quite clearly pushing a non-neutral agenda on the issue. The thing that most clearly stands out in this example is the heavy focus on anecdote and the underhanded use of context-free numbers meant to sound shocking, and you can see the effort working in the comments.
I'm pretty surprised, because I'd've imagined assisted dying programs would be one of the most embraced things by the "soft libertarian" sort of crowd attracted by this site. It would be nice to see articles that actually explored what was happening a bit more; there was a good example in The Guardian a couple of years ago that seemed like an interesting exploration of the issue, rather than a cart-before-the horse article like this https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/18/death-on-demand-has-euthanasia-gone-too-far-netherlands-assisted-dying https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/18/death-on-demand...
- kneebonian 4y agoThe recent rash of discussion around it has not been around assisted suicide in general but specifically on how Canada has implemented it, which is a different discussion.
- matthewmacleod 4y agoIt's not really a different discussion, no – one of the first things an article that was actually interested in this issue would do would be to contextualise the Canadian implementation with respect to the rest of the world. Are there thing that make it noticeably worse, or more subject to abuse? There might be – but we'll never find out from articles like this which go out of their way to avoid questioning that.