Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2017 13:51:26 GMT
Sept 15, 2017 0:38:56 GMT @miccee said:
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.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.