Please read the linked article

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You may remember the case of that disabled child in Canada for whom the parents obtained permission from a court to stop her growth by chemical and surgical means. I was very unhappy with the story when it came out, but I did not know enough, and I thought it better not to criticize the parents when I did not know what they had been through or what the medical prospects really were.

This woman, on the other hand, has every right to speak out on the subject; and I am glad to see that my inchoate sense of disapproval has sound reasons to exist. http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/escaping_from_peter_pans_prison/

Moral of the story: never, ever, EVER pretend that you can judge when a human life is not worth living.

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I defriended someone on the spot when I found her spouting the press' lies about Terri Schiavo. Of course, I knew about the fraud of so-called "permanent vegetative states" long before, and besides, I cannot imagine how anyone can possibly read any account, however biased, of what Michael Schiavo did and said, and have any doubt that he is wife-killer (God help his accomplice and current wife when he gets tired of her.) But there is no point in trying to argue with right-to-murder advocates. In my experience, these people cannot be reasoned with, because their "opinions" are not based on evidence but on the wilful refusal of evidence. Some of them are scientists, too - particularly depressing.

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*hug*
I'm so glad there are other folks goin' for this, besides folks like Jimmy Akin.

(Not like he's bad, but folks will ignore folks who work for Catholic Answers.)

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Unfortunately I am in the same position (look up my filth of an entry in fandom_wiki) as well as considerably less well known. But when I can bring my tiny little speck of dust to the cause, I will do so.

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Those seem like very, very angry people.

Get enough folks saying something, maybe folks will listen....

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That has been my experience as well. The usual schtick goes: anti-aborthanasia = Christian = illogical (or the leftist variant: anti-aborthanasia = Christian = The Man = oppressive). To argue in favor of life is therefore to relinquish all intellectual clout. It doesn't matter that this "argument" is based on cheap associations rather than actual reasoning - if you hold the supposed intellectual high ground you can just assume your assumptions are correct, and that any challenges are coming from intellectual inferiors and thus suspect, if not outright laughable.

I could mention a discussion I had involving X-Men and Dungeons & Dragons alignment, but just remembering it makes my head want to explode....

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The only thing one can do to deal with that is take such a powerful intellectual stance in the first place, that nobody except a fool would try and deny our right to an opinion. After all, the greatest philosopher who ever lived - Thomas Aquinas - is one of ours, not theirs. At that point they can only take the position that you are abusing your cleverness - which is an innately defeated, not to mention anti-intellectual position.