A different viewpoint on the Terri Schiavo case... [View All]

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Although the language used is somewhat inflammatory, I found the following opinion piece interesting:

http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article506716.html

Excerpt:

The reason for this public support of removal from ordinary sustenance, I believe, is not that most people understand or care about Terri Schiavo. Like many others with disabilities, I believe that the American public, to one degree or another, holds that disabled people are better off dead. To put it in a simpler way, many Americans are bigots. A close examination of the facts of the Schiavo case reveals not a case of difficult decisions but a basic test of this country’s decency.

How do the rest of you take this? Personally, I cannot help think the author might be blinded a bit by the massive chip on his shoulder, but some of the points he raised got me to thinking, to say the least.

Later,