It seems that people who have a political motive in the Terri Schiavo case would have us view anyone who is involved in this right to die decision as a murder. I’ve heard the term, court sponsored murder used. Yet our government seems to be in the business of life and death decision making everyday.
The business of War, albeit messy, is one where the government can make a conscious decision to have members of the society give up their lives to support the greater good of the society. During this current war with Iraq, we have had over 1500, young and healthy Americans give up their life. They will never see their families again. They will never have another birthday.
When you look at the Viet Nam Memorial Wall in Washington DC, you see the vast number of names, and it is emotional and overwhelming.
But my point is that we can easily ask the youth of this great nation to make the ultimate sacrifice, in the name of ideology; freedom, democracy, the American way, yet we seem so wrenched when it comes to ending the life of a person who has been in a PVS for an inordinate amount of years.
I suppose I am just upset that the energy that was spent to try and save this one person is never used to save a greater amount of people. What about the homeless, the underinsured, or victims of violent crimes, etc…? But it seems that the US Government, specifically the legislature, that is happy to stop the business of government on behalf of a single person. I don’t think that is right, unless the plan is to stop the business of government for every single case of its type. We have a court system that is designed to interpret the law, and it has done that many times over.
The other aspect of this whole right to die thing is that there are two sides of this debate, the right to life-rs, and the pro-choice communities.
I would imagine that the right to life side lives with a bit more hypocrisy than the pro-choice community, but none the less, they both have some. Right to life says life is precious, except in the case of the death penalty, then they say, fry ’em, and shooting/killing a doctor here or there seems to be part of the stamp of approval of the pro-life folk, as well as maintaining your dead pool online.
Now the pro-choice folks, say government stay out of my business, but then tend to walk the anti-death penalty line. Obviously the reason is to prevent innocent people from being executed. Yet there are times when justice is only served when the death penalty is carried out. While it is proven not be a deterrent for future criminal activity within the community, it does deter one person from committing that crime again.
The people have spoken, and overwhelmingly support the Florida courts rulings with the Terri Schiavo case. I agree with the majority on this one.