Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia

Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop Offering Euthanasia Sept 17, 2017 14:26:01 GMT

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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Sept 17, 2017 14:26:01 GMT

Sept 17, 2017 13:51:26 GMT @miccee said:

Sept 15, 2017 11:41:03 GMT CoolJGS☺ said:

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.

There's quite an important distinction. When euthanasia or assisted suicide is illegal, then that is a case of the government actively interfering with the bodily autonomy of its subjects. If euthanasia or assisted suicide is legal, then that doesn't mean that you have to kill your next door neighbour just because he asks you to. It means that if your neighbour can find a doctor who is willing to prescribe the Nembutal, the doctor cannot be prosecuted.

Well, it's an important distinction both ways. The government has to address just about all aspects of life including religion and ethics.

However, government legalizing it creates a legal ethical standard it has no business in implementing since it obligates others to accept it when there is no logical reason for them to do so when the country has always been unable to stop suicides from happening.

The danger in legalizing it is that if there isn't a doctor willing to kill someone, then how does that person wind up committing suicide? Who pays for it? At what point in time do are doctors and hospital mandated to engage in euthanasia?

Even if one feels there is a government responsibility, when the government allows something, it is only a matter of time when someone whines that they need to make access a priority.

It's est to just let things be the way they always have been which is people have been killing themselves without bureaucracy for centuries. Don't fix what ain't broke.