Marc Riddell schreef:
> On
4/19/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)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(a)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