Reply #2: No,I am not advocating barbarism [View All]

[undergroundpanther]

I think the state making decisions about who lives and who dies is DANGEROUS.

As for me I read scientists are not 100 %sure if she could feel pain.
I am unwilling to risk torture for the health of the state.

I also think the state has no business in deciding if Terry lives or dies.

That said I was trying to bring up issues about this case no one is seeing.

Like right now Bush is cutting veterans benefits..Health benifiets are being curt for EVERYONE else too.

Alot of people coming back from war have brain injuries.Bush is cutting veterans benefits AND he refuses to allow stem cell research that could offer help to brain injured people..What does that look like to you?

Also Terry is not a sentimental but disabled public figure like Reagan.Why is SHE singled out a target when there are plenty of other people suffering in similar circumstances who's voices are not being heard.

And why NOW? Why is Terry Shiavo a hot button Now?

The timing of this national debate is very suspicious to me.Considering Thimerosol. Mercury and the damage done.
And brain injured Veterans. The "tort reform"issue...
We were not debating this issue before the war when there were no brain injured veterans coming home to be ignored raising a ruckus for their benefits.

I saw a similar pattern when the media was discussing whether torture is ever justified..Than Abu Gharib,they were testing public outrage reactions.The government knew torture was going to occur they wanted to see if the public would go along with them.And since we didn't storm the white house Gonzales..is attorney General..Something sick about that pattern don't you think?

Think about the deeper and wider horrid implications that a court ruling will have on pa person who is disabled,and their right to live, their right to die and the dulling of human compassion that invariably happens when the state makes life or death decisions.

That process is what scares me about this case,besides the obvious frightening part of the inhumanity of the state deciding Terry's fate and overriding her family in favor of death...

I am very afraid for us all.