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I get the story and am sympathetic to the OP, but a little confused about this line: And while I'm at it, I might want you to die a painful death too. Is he j

by znowi 13y ago

I get the story and am sympathetic to the OP, but a little confused about this line: And while I'm at it, I might want you to die a painful death too. Is he just angry at everyone?

ohashi 13y ago
Everyone who has/is voting against doctor assisted suicide was my interpretation.
kevinbowman 13y ago
Not everyone; he goes on to say "If you're a politician who has ever voted against doctor-assisted suicide, or you would vote against it in the future ..." and another clarification about citizens who have based a vote on opposing doctor-assisted suicide. I assume the original "might" is because you may or may not fall into one of these categories.
MetaCosm 13y ago
Yes. Everyone who supports the pointless dragging out of suffering. His dad went though hellish pain then died on the day that post was made, if you think that is a good thing -- he probably has a bit of a bone to pick with you.
DanielBMarkham 13y ago
"Is he just angry at everyone?" He is irrationally distraught, to the point of advocating violence. The reason this piece works (for me) is that everybody is irrationally distraught at this time in their life. So while I get that he wants pain and suffering inflicted on those he views as responsible for his dad's suffering, I could line up a million more people who want to cling onto dear grandpa as long as the old guy has a breath. Everybody is irrational and emotional at this time. That's the nature of the phase of your life that involves burying people you love. And it's the exact reason that others behave in ways he finds abhorrent.
- n3rdy 13y ago
  Voting is already an act of violence. His father was suffering agony every day because government and its voters decided if anyone in that condition wants to end their life, that the course of action be to put anyone who showed him mercy into a cage or worse.
SilasX 13y ago
I'm pretty sure his point there was the people he's criticizing want to deny the right to a painless death, so it's only fitting that they be denied that right as well. Not that they die painfully now, but that when they die, that it be painful.

by znowi 13y ago

I get the story and am sympathetic to the OP, but a little confused about this line: And while I'm at it, I might want you to die a painful death too. Is he just angry at everyone?

ohashi 13y ago

Everyone who has/is voting against doctor assisted suicide was my interpretation.

kevinbowman 13y ago

Not everyone; he goes on to say "If you're a politician who has ever voted against doctor-assisted suicide, or you would vote against it in the future ..." and another clarification about citizens who have based a vote on opposing doctor-assisted suicide. I assume the original "might" is because you may or may not fall into one of these categories.

MetaCosm 13y ago

Yes. Everyone who supports the pointless dragging out of suffering. His dad went though hellish pain then died on the day that post was made, if you think that is a good thing -- he probably has a bit of a bone to pick with you.

DanielBMarkham 13y ago

"Is he just angry at everyone?" He is irrationally distraught, to the point of advocating violence. The reason this piece works (for me) is that everybody is irrationally distraught at this time in their life. So while I get that he wants pain and suffering inflicted on those he views as responsible for his dad's suffering, I could line up a million more people who want to cling onto dear grandpa as long as the old guy has a breath. Everybody is irrational and emotional at this time. That's the nature of the phase of your life that involves burying people you love. And it's the exact reason that others behave in ways he finds abhorrent.

n3rdy 13y ago
Voting is already an act of violence. His father was suffering agony every day because government and its voters decided if anyone in that condition wants to end their life, that the course of action be to put anyone who showed him mercy into a cage or worse.

SilasX 13y ago

I'm pretty sure his point there was the people he's criticizing want to deny the right to a painless death, so it's only fitting that they be denied that right as well. Not that they die painfully now, but that when they die, that it be painful.