[extropy-chat] Thoughts on Schiavo

[Joseph Bloch]

So you're in favor of government intervention in this case?

Joseph

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Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
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>>On Mar 26, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Mike Lorrey wrote:
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>>>Lets make one thing perfectly clear: Terri Schiavo's responsiveness
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>>is
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>>>no less than the responsiveness of Stephen Hawking. Stephen just
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>>has a
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>>>lot of high tech gizmos he's had years to learn to use to make
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>>himself
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>>>useful in the world. Terri has been denied the same opportunities
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>>by
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>>>her husband and remains in a condition that Stephen would be in
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>>today
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>>>given a similar level of neglect.
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>>This is the most empty and baseless assertion i believe I have ever 
>>seen from you.  Comparing one of the finest minds of our age to a
>>woman 
>>who by every test we can administer is mentally unfortunately little 
>>more than a vegetable shows a patent disregard of reality.    Why are
>>you just looking at the outside an ignoring everything we know and
>>can 
>>test?
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>What is empty and baseless is the assertion that Terri is brain dead,
>in a coma, or a vegetable, all characterizations only of her husbands
>lawyers and their hand picked and paid expert medical witnesses (who
>will say whatever you want for the right fee).
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>There HAS BEEN NO TESTING of Terri's mental capacity. A fellow who has
>the technology to test not only her mental capacity but whether she
>wants to live or not is currently under legal consideration, and the
>judge is ticked that nobody told him about this before.
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>Mike Lorrey
>Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
>"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
>It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
>                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
>Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com
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