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Should American adopt the right to Doctor Assisted Suicide?

Should Doctor assisted suicide be legal?

  • yes

    Votes: 42 70.0%
  • Depends on the regulation put in place and circumstances

    Votes: 11 18.3%
  • no

    Votes: 7 11.7%

  • Total voters
    60
Yeah because knowingly starving someone to death is not barbaric :roll:

Someone denying food is not someone else doing anything towards them. Try something else.
 
Why are you against euthanasia?

Reading is fundamental.

JayDubya said:
You have a right to kill yourself, not to have others do killing for you.

Paying someone to kill a human in aggression is impermissible and any government that allows such a thing is backwards and barbaric.
 
Probably the part where you are killing them. :roll:

Killing in of it's self is not an act of aggression.

Being aggressive in doing so would only qualify that statement.

When an aging dog is euthanized the vet didn't aggressively kill it. The animal dies peacefully and painlessly.

There is definitely a distinction. :roll:
 
Your trolling is noted, sir, as is your lack of rebuttal.

How am I trolling?

Your statement is ridiculous.

So an injection to end someones life is aggressive conduct.

But intentionally depriving someone of care, food and water under my care knowing they will die is not aggressive conduct given the level of suffering involved with the two options.

That makes no sense because either way you've killed that person by your actions.
 
Killing in of it's self is not an act of aggression.

Yes, yes, it is. Ending someone's life is aggression. You don't just kill someone and somehow not act aggressively. You're being nonsensical.
 
Yes, yes, it is. Ending someone's life is aggression. You don't just kill someone and somehow not act aggressively. You're being nonsensical.
You're an idiot.
 
Someone denying food is not someone else doing anything towards them. Try something else.

This is one of the most ignorant things you've ever said.

But that's hardly surprising coming from you.

In the Henrin universe there'd be no government, no schools, no hospitals, no roads, no laws except a single maximum security prison for abortionists and euthanasia doctors.
 
http://compassionwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/VSED-packet-2013-1.pdf



Again your alternative is one of suffering. Prolonged suffering.

So you are ok with someone helping with alleviating the pain associated with suicide just not ok with someone, a professional, just out right doing it for the said individuals. I'm not understanding where your line is drawn.




What is aggressive about stop someone's painful demise and giving them peace?

Yes, it usually takes days to die of dehydration. Yes, if you keep drinking you won't die of dehydration. I was aware of these facts.

As stated, this "suffering" you refer to can be palliated. I'll say again: palliation is mercy. Killing is not mercy.

Killing is only justified when absolutely necessary, as in self-defense. Every human being has an unalienable right to life. We create governments to protect such rights.

There is nothing to celebrate about a government abandoning its chief reason for existence.
 
This is one of the most ignorant things you've ever said.

But that's hardly surprising coming from you.

In the Henrin universe there'd be no government, no schools, no hospitals, no roads, no laws except a single maximum security prison for abortionists and euthanasia doctors.
There's really no point in arguing with him.
 
This is one of the most ignorant things you've ever said.

But that's hardly surprising coming from you.

In the Henrin universe there'd be no government, no schools, no hospitals, no roads, no laws except a single maximum security prison for abortionists and euthanasia doctors.

You do realize I don't believe in prison, right? :lol: Would you like to try again?
 
Yes, yes, it is.
No no it's not.
Ending someone's life is aggression.
Aggression - Aggression - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

: angry or violent behavior or feelings

: hostile action against another country, government, etc.

You don't just kill someone and somehow not act aggressively. You're being nonsensical.

No you are, as usual, being nonsensical. We are not using Henrin's Dictionary - we are using the conventional one. See above for the actual definition of what constitutes as aggression.

Try again.
 
In this thread, people call other forum members ad hominems and pretend they don't understand why that's bad.

Smh.
 
Yes, it usually takes days to die of dehydration. Yes, if you keep drinking you won't die of dehydration. I was aware of these facts.

As stated, this "suffering" you refer to can be palliated. I'll say again: palliation is mercy. Killing is not mercy.

Killing is only justified when absolutely necessary, as in self-defense. Every human being has an unalienable right to life. We create governments to protect such rights.

There is nothing to celebrate about a government abandoning its chief reason for existence.
What about all the people in this country that die each year because they have no health insurance. Is that the government protecting their rights?
 
What about all the people in this country that die each year because they have no health insurance. Is that the government protecting their rights?

Do you think that somehow people have a right to health insurance or medical treatment? :lol:
 
Do you think that somehow people have a right to health insurance or medical treatment? :lol:
Yes, they do in every other industrialized nation.
 
Yes, it usually takes days to die of dehydration. Yes, if you keep drinking you won't die of dehydration. I was aware of these facts.
Right you made the flippant remark as if dieing of starvation and thirst was an easy and quick way to go. It takes, as established by the link, commonly up to a few weeks. Without palliation that is a lot of suffering.

As stated, this "suffering" you refer to can be palliated. I'll say again: palliation is mercy. Killing is not mercy.
It would still be assisted suicide. Explain the distinction. The only difference is that the professional in this case is simply watching the person wither away as the medicate them, while, being aware that this individual is actively committing suicide and agreeing to help them do so in a non-painful way.

Killing is only justified when absolutely necessary, as in self-defense. Every human being has an unalienable right to life. We create governments to protect such rights.
Do we also create governments to deny the right to end your own life? This thread isn't titled "Should doctors be allowed to murder people"
it's about the individual right to seek a medical professional when choosing to end their life. Is that not a right they have and is it not the medical professional right to choose if they are willing to partake in that. And if when all is said and done, there is mutual and respected understanding between the professional and the individual seeking to end their life what abut that is aggressive and inhumane?

There is nothing to celebrate about a government abandoning its chief reason for existence.
I think we can celebrate a government that recognizes an individuals right to choose their own fate rather than choose it for them.
 
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Aggression involves inflicting a harmful or other unpleasantness upon another individual. Your feelings towards the subject are secondary.

No it doesn't. Please read the definition again. The irony here is that you are insisting that I am clouded by my feelings when you are the one so enthralled with your own ego that you are ignoring the actual definition of a word in favor of you own made up definition.
 
Yes, they do in every other industrialized nation.

So do people have to provide their labor so you get medical treatment or does it just pop out of the void to make you feel all better.
 
No it doesn't. Please read the definition again. The irony here is that you are insisting that I am clouded by my feelings when you are the one so enthralled with your own ego that you are ignoring the actual definition of a word in favor of you own made up definition.

Lol, I used your definition, ffs.
 
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