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Subject: Slippery slope

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Damoclese

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Date Posted: 06/22/03 5:13pm
In reply to: PAUL 's message, "Yeh start it there and where will it end Don." on 06/21/03 5:42pm

>PAUL-I guarantee it wont stop at the sort of patients
>your talking about-This is a sick world full of sick
>people(And Im talking mentally,) Give em an excuse to
>kill and they will-And you say God is sick Don,to use
> your turn of phrase I puke on your ideas for saving
>money in hospitals.
>

This is a pretty slippery slope argument. Doctors have the option of killing every day without anyone being the wiser, but I've yet to see doctors kill patients left and right in unfortunate heart surgeries. No, the fact of the matter is the medical field is regulated in such a way that such going-ons are highly limited.

Another example is that pet owners everywhere have the power to put their animals to sleep at any given point. So far I haven't seen a rash of pet putting to sleep. It simply doesn't follow. Power to legally kill doesn't translate into kill everything vaguely resembling.

Damoclese

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