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So I happened to repeat an observation made several times before by many other people, and that is at any case not to be taken in total earnest (evidence for the existence of God can be sought in slightly more fundamental areas): that atheists with a taste for fine things are unlucky, because they have nobody to be grateful to for them. Suddenly a couple of atheists have me in a death grip all over my page, and, through a fog of misunderstandings, misexplainations, and one or two downright lies, they are trying to - I don't quite know, but do some damage to my statement one way or another. Folks, whether or not you are as bad at philosophy as I think you are, don't you think you ought to find more serious things (including, yes, more serious statements from me) to get intense about?

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shelestel.livejournal.com

Do you deny the fact that there are people who have to cope with tremendous amounts of pain that has nothing to do with others making them feel useless, and who may in some cases (such as if there is no hope for improvement) wish to put an end to it? Is it this you call cowardice?

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Wherever I hear a person feeling that their life is not worth living, I hear the echo of someone else's selfishness. "Whatever you have done to the least of these you have done to Me" includes "Any time you have allowed or encouraged one of these to feel that the life I gave is not worth living, you have nailed Me to the cross again - and spat in My face for good measure."

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shelestel.livejournal.com

Does it mean that whenever you hear someone saying that someone else's life is worth living you do not hear any selfishness?

I don't understand. You see a terminally ill patient who depends on technology or drugs to keep them formally alive - a life not even remotely resembling the one they used to have - and you see some other people's selfish interest to get rid of the person?

I couldn't understand the relevance of the stories.

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If you did not understand the point of the story of a woman who died of cancer with her whole life unfulfilled, and still managed to spread light and love and courage around her, I might as well stop wasting my time. You will never get it.

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shelestel.livejournal.com

Say, do you notice how seldom you address anything I say directly, at face value?

And with the story and the bio - I did not read them carefully, because they are long and because last time you sent me to read an essay of yours I did so, and it proved to be of little relevance, with the relevant part included in less than a paragraph. Then I didn't mind spending the time. Now I do.

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That is because you use ideas as weapons, to defeat enemies. Not as things worth entertaining for their own sake. It is always a search for the case that will contradict or break what I am saying. And as it happens I have heard them all before. My reaction to any defence of euthanasia is very simple: keep your filthy hands off the old and sick or I'll duff you up. I do not intend to prove anything to you, since I have long since concluded that you do not intend to have anything proved to. Quite simply, and quite practically, I stand against it and I regard it as filth. That is all you need to know, to know how to deal with me on this matter.