| Subject: You have every right to disagree |
Author:
Ben
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Date Posted: 04/ 8/03 6:50pm
In reply to:
Crystalline
's message, "You bring up good points.....but I absolutely do not agree with you!" on 04/ 8/03 7:16am
To "Crystalline":
Hello, and welcome to our board. I don't have much time for the board anymore, but I'll try to quickly address your points as I understand them.
>However, I
>believe that a human life is a human life. Shouldn't
>the person be able to decide whether they want to at
>least try to live? Why should we be able to decide if
>a human life is good enough or not to live?
Well, for the same reason we decide that many _animals_ don't need to live. Do you have a problem with the fact that we euthanize animals? If so, we can continue from there, but if not, I see no objective reason to esteem human life above animal life all things being equal.
In the example I've used before, if you have a severely retarded person who cannot even eat on his own and a very smart dog which is capable of helping blind people, etc., which is more valuable to society? Why is human life inherently valuable?
> Once
>again, I see your point in religion; but, being
>Catholic, I believe that only God has the right to
>take a person's life.
Okay... but why do you believe that? Surely not just _because_ you're Catholic. Surely you are _Catholic_ because you agree with the things they teach, right? Otherwise, you are not doing any thinking for yourself whatsoever.
On that note, why does only God have the right to take a person's life, but humans have the right to take animals' lives? Also: if only God has the right to take a life, why does he continually tell his followers in the Old Testament to take lives?
Ben
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