Marc Riddell schreef:
On 4/19/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Respecting and preserving that human life is also a common thread which connects us all.
on 4/19/07 3:24 PM, Mark Wagner at carnildo@gmail.com wrote:
Is it? I'm a firm believer in the right to die, and I know I'm not the only one here.
The "right to die" is a legal issue; that's not what I'm referring to here.
I would say that the "right to die" is also a moral issue: to be able to live and die according to one's own wishes is the most important right that we have. According to me, that is, but I'm not the only one.
And that right can so easily be taken away by people who believe that preserving human life is the greatest good; even worse are those people who do not acknowledge that you can even think otherwise, who say that "preserving human life is a common thread that connects us all".
It's too easy to assume that your own values are natural and self-evident that other people can't help but share them; but when you do so, you're almost certainly wrong. Deleting an article because of "assumed common morals" is almost never a good NPOV idea. In my opinion.
Eugene