Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.
The focus this time: Just a little killing here and a little killing there…
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Much like how “Medical Marijuana” was used to normalize non-medial weed legalization, euthanasia was used to normalize killing people.
“The idea of a nonmedical model for assisted suicide was just pushed again by bioethics professor Eric Mathison. From the assisted-suicide-boosting Thaddeus Mason Pope’s Medical Futility blog (an excellent resource on these issues, reported by Pope objectively):
“‘Eric Mathison proposes a non-medical model of assisted dying.
“‘The current, dominant model of MAID requires patients to get approval from healthcare providers before getting access to assisted suicide and euthanasia. This is problematic for a couple of reasons.
“‘First, there’s a theoretical problem — namely, it’s paternalistic because it requires a healthcare professional to be convinced that the patient is suffering intolerably. And second, there’s a practical problem because there aren’t enough healthcare professionals who provide the service.
“‘In response to these problems, Mathison believes that (1) the only requirement that a patient needs to meet is that they are making an autonomous choice, and (2) that non-medical personnel should be able to assist in their deaths.’
“That’s only logical. Killing/suicide isn’t a medical act. So why should it be restricted to doctors and nurse practitioners?”
