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Re: Misplaced pity Is not going to help eliminate psychopath

by AgentR » Sat 07 Oct 2006, 14:00:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'M')y step-mother just died in february, she was a Xtian. You'd think that with her whole life full of devotion, and Xtian kindness that she'd be glad to quit fighting the cancer that had been eating her body in painful ways and go to her reward but she fought to the last second.

Why would you think that she'd be glad to quit fighting? Its a natural, and to a Christian entirely ethical, choice to make. Embracing the struggle, and offering the pain up to God is repeated over and over within Christian tradition as lived by the examples of the Saints.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')et, someone who is brave enough and wants to go out on their own terms is denied and made to suffer "bravely" through agonizing pain.

That is the nature of modern medicine, most Doc's measure their success or failure by the increased longevity of their patients, regardless of the price in money, suffering, and degredation. However, it is an undeniable truth that there is always a quantity of morphine that will end any particular pain, however, it might make the patient unconscious or dead in the process. Thats an extreme example, but it proves the case, we are choosing to enforce suffering on people in order to increase the physician's patient-year score card.

I hope, by the time I get close to my seventies, that the practice of medicine will have emotionally and legally matured somewhat. Maybe it'll take a truly machiavelian review of law to realize inflicting $250,000 worth of suffering on some patient in order to keep them breathing for another six months is not worth the price to society or the patient. Maybe it'll simply be a centralized system where the patient can enforceably opt-out of specified levels of treatment. I mean, really, how do I currently go about asserting a nationwide prohibition DNR/DNI type order that will stick? Will the ER doc do it to me anyway, even if there were such a system?

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')nyway, the only thing you aren't doing right is sending your psychopaths to do the killing and save your good decent duty bound civil servants a world of hurt and torment.

Psychopaths don't make particularly good soldiers.

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