We use a lot of extra things to keep our children safe on the playgrounds; flexible rubber mats, air-cushioned surfaces just to name a couple.
Are we doing a disservice to our children by protecting them so much? I think so.
Children need to get hurt on accident when doing kid activities for a variety of reasons; to learn their limits, to learn that just because something is fun doesn't mean it isn't dangerous or potentially painful as well, that jumping from a one-inch diameter tube or rail to another probably won't end well, swinging way passed the bar of the swing set could end with a sore bum and bloody hands and forearms. They need to learn that there are downsides to fun and upsides to playing it safe.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Salud, Kevorkian
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the leader in the humane treatment to the terminally ill or of a painfully old ago.
Murder? No, murder implies it wasn't wanted. Assisted suicide? No, that implies he helped the patient in the process, but he did not, he just set the machine up. Avatar of the right to die? Oh yes. Everyone has the right to die, no matter what their religion feels is morally correct; law != religiously moral.
I may not have necessarily agreed with the method (the Thanatron wasn't too bad, but the Mercitron was) due to the length of dying and the pain of asphyxiation. While it is believed that some suffer from a certain euphoria, it is usually an interruption between severe pains. While I realize any more involvement on Kevorkian's part could be perceived as murder, as the patient wasn't the one throwing the switch, there were better ways to do it (IV to the jugular, not the arm for instance).
It is unfortunate people don't want the right to die legalized, at least until they are in the situation in which it would be utilized; people just think about themselves, not the person dying. Why should the living suffer from having their relative with them no longer through artificial means when they could linger for months or years, fuck the pain, and die naturally, you know, how God intended? I think they're also afraid of the abuses, but the abusers wouldn't need any right to die laws in order to put something like that into effect. We sure are a selfish, narrow-minded lot.
Murder? No, murder implies it wasn't wanted. Assisted suicide? No, that implies he helped the patient in the process, but he did not, he just set the machine up. Avatar of the right to die? Oh yes. Everyone has the right to die, no matter what their religion feels is morally correct; law != religiously moral.
I may not have necessarily agreed with the method (the Thanatron wasn't too bad, but the Mercitron was) due to the length of dying and the pain of asphyxiation. While it is believed that some suffer from a certain euphoria, it is usually an interruption between severe pains. While I realize any more involvement on Kevorkian's part could be perceived as murder, as the patient wasn't the one throwing the switch, there were better ways to do it (IV to the jugular, not the arm for instance).
It is unfortunate people don't want the right to die legalized, at least until they are in the situation in which it would be utilized; people just think about themselves, not the person dying. Why should the living suffer from having their relative with them no longer through artificial means when they could linger for months or years, fuck the pain, and die naturally, you know, how God intended? I think they're also afraid of the abuses, but the abusers wouldn't need any right to die laws in order to put something like that into effect. We sure are a selfish, narrow-minded lot.
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