Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia

Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia Sept 15, 2017 11:41:03 GMT

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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Sept 15, 2017 11:41:03 GMT

Sept 15, 2017 0:38:56 GMT @miccee said:

Sept 14, 2017 23:02:18 GMT CoolJGS☺ said:

It's perfectly ethical.

No one should feel an ethical responsibility to kill anyone else.

There's plenty of way people can kil themselves without help.

Of course, if it's legal and there's people that want to do it, then so be it, but that's not an ethics issue and there's no need to turn into into one

Euthanasia does not impose an ethical responsibility to kill someone else. If there are people who are willing to assist in helping someone else to die, but the government withholds it (likely at the behest of religious medievalists), then that is an egregiously unethical state of affairs.

That's almost what I said.

However, to say a government is wrong by withholding it is exactly the same thing as saying government has an responsibility to allow it which is incorrect. They didn't have to do anything and a person can off themselves freely without a government sign-off. The person who feels a need to help people like that simply accepts the risk.

Likewise, to expect the Pope to comment on it in the form of modern ethicism would in effect put an ethics expectation on it when there is none.

If the Pope is against it, there is nothing wrong with that.

Of course, the thread title may be non-factual (I couldn't pull up the article) or a play on words, but taking it at face value, it sounds like something a Pope would say and there is no ethical issue in him saying it.