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Why don't you try explaining to us why you think life is an 'intrinsic' value?
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How do you foster "happiness" and "liberty" by force-feeding a helpless victim of a terrible disease? Of what value to such a person is "property"? How does "inalienable right to life" somehow get translated into a justification to prolong a hopeless state of suffering? |
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dk, you have the right to remain silent. Should I therefore force you to shut up? No? Well then, we see the problem with forcing patients to live.
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