You’re empathetic toward the fictional character you’ve created. You’re making assumptions about her drug of choice, her food selection preferences and the motivation of her kids.
Our empathy is for the kids. And if it seems lacking for the parents, it’s because it seems lacking in the parents.
For what it’s worth, I also read that as a pass.
Got to level 42.
From the French, dent de lion (dahn dee leon) — tooth of the lion.
>the same way my brother thinks women shouldn’t pursue Ivy League educations<
Fair point, although I’ll argue that giving specific instructions aimed at getting someone to die, and stopping them from stopping themselves, isn’t a slope away from “go ahead” — it’s a fall off a cliff.
Do the facts in this case seem similar to your scenario?
Better the criminal justice system than nobody. But more importantly, why not the criminal justice system?
I see a lot of people warning about a slippery slope here, but I honestly can’t see the bottom of the hill. What’s your worst-case scenario based on this decision? Because if it’s “now people will be reluctant to encourage vulnerable people to commit suicide” then — I’m okay with that.
You have a First Amendment right to express your feelings about ice cream. You do not have a First Amendment right to ice cream.
You have some kernel of an idea in there somewhere. (There are already several codified legal restrictions on freedom of speech — libel and copyright laws are good examples.) But “you are censoring people who want to censor it” doesn’t make any lick of sense. Nobody is stopping the protestors from expressing the idea…
There’s thinking, and then there’s over thinking. You and the author are going to sprain something.
Someone is getting paid by the post.
Still less WTF than bottle flipping.
Would you settle for six? “The government is picking your doctor.”
“Defund.” Look, it’s not like the government hands out free cash money to PP for existing. The government pays PP for services rendered just like any other health care provider. What the Republicans are trying to do is not defund PP — they’re taking away your right to pick your own medical facility. Like they’re an…
Expecting a conversation does not equal silencing. It’s sort of a call for the opposite.