The Case for Killing Granny
You just got to love a post that includes the sentence "nameless Mouth of the Dark Lord of Newsweek" as used by John C. Wright responding to the article by Evan Thomas on the "The Case for Killing Granny".
John C. Wright shows exactly why Mr. Thomas is wrong and is really being dishonest.
Americans are afraid not just of dying, but of talking and thinking about death. Until Americans learn to contemplate death as more than a scientific challenge to be overcome, our health-care system will remain unfixable.
We have often heard to explain things that Americans are afraid of death and in a culture that just about worships the body, or at least young bodies, so there is some truth to this. Though it would not explain why it is that many who are religious and who know we are more than just a body would object to euthanasia and doctor assisted suicide.
It is also rather interesting that he would talk about the need to "contemplate death as more than a scientific challenge." This of course exactly what the Church has done throughout the ages. St. Thomas Aquinas kept a skull on his desk to do just that and it is a good to think about our own mortality. But the contemplation of death unlike what Mr. Thomas asserts does not necessarily lead you to be more accepting of removing healthcare, but of understanding the proper respect for the human person whether they are at the end of life or not.
There are of course the distinctions in Catholic thought between ordinary and extraordinary care. Though often what was once considered extraordinary care can become ordinary care. Mr. Thomas is making no such distinction as the title of his article suggests. The problem with government healthcare is that it also does not make such distinction and will assign the divide between ordinary and extraordinary as to the costs involved.
John C. Wright's critique is much better than mine, just had to add my two cents.
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E.G.: Orwell wrote something to the effect that some people believe stuff so stupid only an intellectual could believe.
Suppose you are a moron. And, suppose you are a liberal. But, I repeat myself.
Twain wrote that about congressmen. Too true.
If you think spending money keeping granny 98.6 is more important than Obama's narrative - you is a racist!
More racist b/c our exalted ruler will use the money to keep foster 50,000,000 latino immigrants and you evil, selfish racists want to waste money on granny that should go to millions of poor people of color voting to take whatever money you may have left after cap and tax and nationalized hell care taxes have destroyed the economy.
These latino inmmigrants also have grandmothers...
And they would be the best of allies, having a more traditional thinking, than anyone else at the moment. But in your little flame above you have done what the liberals love you to do: associate conservatives with mexican haters.
Jorge,
I guess I don't need to teach my daughters to obey the laws of this country because they are pro-life, right? My French speaking, Catholic in-laws came to this country from Canada and they waited their turn in line. Why is this concept so hard for our Latino brothers to understand ?