Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro...
by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:07AM
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Contradicts with freedom, free will, and bodily autonomy. People who want out should be allowed out under some circumstances. Two psychiatrists signed off in this case. How many would you need before stamping approval on someone’s wish to leave this plane of existence? Not a rhetorical question.
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Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro...
by rayiner on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:17AM
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> Contradicts with freedom, free will, and bodily autonomy.
Those are socially constructed concepts and society decides their metes and bounds.
Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro...
by toomuchtodo on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:37AM
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Is your issue with Belgium (where this is legal, among other developed countries)? Or legal/government sanctioned euthanasia in general? Follow up question: thoughts on jurisdiction shopping for this when citizens can travel there from a country that doesn’t respect their rights domestically?
Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro...
by rayiner on Sunday October 09, 2022 @02:52PM
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Belgians can do what they want, I guess. But we can judge empirically whether their social beliefs are pro-adaptive or mal-adaptive. Belgians are being supplanted by Muslim immigrants who definitely do not think suicide is okay. It’s unsurprising that a culture that doesn’t value life for its own sake is being out-competed by one that does.
Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro...
by 2ICofafireteam on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:49AM
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I don't know but for the other end of it, where I am, stamping approval to detain someone and prevent them from completing suicide takes one person for 48 hours and two for longer.