| So for > well... yeah, but isn't that always the motive, what's the difference now? See the reply of djokkataja, it covers it pretty well. > And for (2) "sometimes, mistakes are made and people die who shouldn't have" - is that what you also think when it comes to, say, the death penalty? There is a world of difference. Now let me say that we in the Netherlands have no death penalty, but let's take the model in America vs the process of euthanasie in the netherlands. Deathpenalty -> Subject is not willing, evaluation is done by non trained experts (jury) on issues of law (ie guilty) Euthanasie -> Subject is willing, evaluation is done by trained experts (at least 2 GP's) on medical issues. In the deathpenalty scenario the worst you can do is kill someone innocent. In the euthanasie scenario the worst you can do is kill someone with a huge medical condition that for all appearances it seems to be terminal with an unbearable standard of living (ie pain). Comparing the two is cheap rhetoric as far as I'm concerned. |