From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 18:53:37 BST
Platt, All..
> Ian --We, both as a society and as individuals, will have to explain by
> what moral code it was right to allow our government to prevent a mother
> from putting water on the lips of her dying child. Platt
Your comment here raises something I've been grappling with myself.
Namely, if her parents had also wished for her to die, would that have made her
death moral? That is, is the immorality of the situation that Ms. Shiavo's
parents were prevented from keeping her alive, or that Ms. Shiavo was allowed
to die at all. If it is about the former, it is not really about "life", is it?
I mean, if everyone had wanted her to die, would that have made it "okay"?
(Bearing in mind that her own wishes were unknown).
Arlo
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