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Christian. Educator. Writer. Anglo-American. Family guy. History. Distributist. Interested in household-style churches that multiply disciple makers.
Bristol (UK) Katılım Mayıs 2008
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All of the arguments for euthanasia fail. Even if I agreed that people have some kind of moral right to kill themselves (which I don’t), euthanasia wouldn’t be needed to exercise that “right.” You can already kill yourself. The idea that people need some kind of state sponsored system just to commit suicide is totally incoherent, even on its own terms. And those term are totally deranged because in truth, again, there is no moral right to suicide.
But that’s almost a separate question, or at least a question further downstream. When it comes to euthanasia, the first and most immediate question is not whether people have the right to kill themselves, but whether the STATE and the MEDICAL INDUSTRY have the right to kill people. Should doctors be in the business of deliberately killing human beings? Should we have a bureaucracy for suicide? These are the real questions. And even if you (wrongly) think that humans have a moral right to murder themselves, you should still be able to see why doctors and bureaucrats ought to have no role in it.
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@OborneTweets @medialens Philosopher @FeserEdward addresses this specific issue from the perspective that the Iran War does not fit the traditional criteria of being a 'just war' x.com/i/status/20350…
Edward Feser@FeserEdward
Are servicemen obligated to apply just war criteria to a war they are called to fight in? Must they refuse to fight in an unjust war? I explain what the tradition says about these matters in “Just war doctrine and the duties of soldiers,” over at the blog: edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2026/03/just-w…
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Of course it won't happen here, blah, blah.blah....
#No2DigitalID
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I don't even need to say anything, I'm just tired of this.
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You wouldn't get this on @BBCSport .
No sound on @ITV on its coverage of the #EFLCup . Reminds me of TV in the 1970s when 'technical difficulties' were an everyday occurrence.
#ArsenalVManCity #CarabaoCup #FirstWorldProblems
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Meanwhile, Japan's Prime Minister is getting the Trump Oval Office treatment. Excruciating.
#PearlHarbour
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@al_shaw We were supposed to read it in the 6th form bro when we were 16! 🤣
Funnily enough I had it in my hand this week sorting through books.
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@johnehosier I've owned it for decades and only just started. I'm really enjoying it so far.
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@al_shaw I’m actually rereading this book myself at present after a gap of about 50 years!!!
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