Quadriplegic man reportedly ‘cried’ when told France has ordered him to be starved to deathFrom a utilitarian perspective, starving one quadripelgic man to death against his wishes does less harm than, say, hanging a few thousand politicians from the oak trees or lampposts most convenient to their places of business. However, the adoption of utilitarian ethics is exactly the problem with these cases. There are other ethical systems, and in some of the better ones a revolutionary movement is approaching the morally obligatory.
...The Court of Cassation’s final ruling means that Lambert, who is not otherwise ill or at the end of his life, would be removed from food and water and left to die slowly, which can take 14 days or more. The decision cannot be appealed in France, but his parents are fighting the order and have threatened to press charges for murder if his food is removed.... On Monday, Viviane renewed her plea for her son’s life. “He sleeps at night, wakes up during the day, and looks at me when I talk,” she said, according to Reuters. “He only needs to be fed through a special device and his doctor wants to deprive him of this so that he can die, while legal experts have have shown that this is not necessary.” She also emphasized that he has reacted to their voices, stating, “In May, when learning about his planned death, he cried.”
An Age of Revolution Beckons
France's government rivals Britain's in its worthiness for a revolution.
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I wonder what governments and people's Authorities will react with if a superior civilization comes in and begins culling and terminating whomever and whatever they wish?
What are they gonna say, these humans, that everybody should Follow the Golden Rule?
It's like the guy who kisses up to the powerful and kicks down at the weaklings.
It's more fun to kick at the powerful. They need a good kick once in awhile.
Also, there is no difference between one death and one thousand deaths. Souls or rather the spirit cannot be killed. Thus it truly does not matter in the long term of eternity and the thousands of aeons in the future, how many humans die now vs later. People are gonna die sooner or later.
You might as well enjoy your time on Earth. No point crying about it. Exiting this Maya illusion so you can get a new incarnated body later on, Resurrection or not, is something you should be cheering for. Of course some humans are used to their life on Earth and don't want to lose it, because they are told that they will "die".
These are the difference in thoughts between a mortal and an immortal. The mortal when threatened with death feels ego stress and tries to survive. The immortal says, "you say You can tell me?" "But I say, I can let you kill me".
Animals, livestock, on a farm will also cry when their babies are taken to the slaughter or they are on the way to the slaughter and they can feel the time of pain and loss. Mortals are little more than animals. In fact, animals are better at times because they at least have the excuse that they don't have a proper free will system backing them. What do humans have for an excuse?
Is the story accurate? If so, then yes, this is certainly well past the point demanding resistance to authority, and quite possibly more than that.
If not, somebody has some explaining to do.
There's some dispute (as the article notes) about how to characterize his state of mind. His mother and father describe him as responsive to their voices; doctors sometimes characterize him as 'vegetative.'
The AFP reports on the story, but I notice they insist on characterizing the care he receives as 'life support,' rather than 'feeding.' It's true he'll die without it, but it's not like a ventilator.
His parents now regard the death process as irreversible, given the harm to his body of day after day after day of being denied food and water; the Archbishop of Paris has asked priests to offer mass for him.
So not only did they decide to kill him, they picked one of the most prolonged and painful ways to do it. This kind of shit is the ultimate avoidance of responsibility- they did not "do" anything, they just let "nature take its course".
It is the standard response of bureau-rats everywhere, this example an extension of the idea it is always safer to say "no".
They pulled both the feeding and watering tubes earlier today, and he's dead. https://www.dw.com/en/france-brain-damage-patient-dies-after-right-to-die-row/a-49546178
Isn't government involvement in health care grand.
Eric Hines
The Irs did not suppress any of you conservatives. They just let nature take its course. Bureacracy is a kind of urban jungle, created by aztec humanists.
Vote more of your saviours into dc. Lets see how much power human messiahs can withstand before dc saves us all... from food and water, keke.
His body has died. His spirit will be debriefed by his soul group. No burea rats allowed. Assuming he can let go of his human ego and id. Reststance is futile.
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