Re: URGENT - Please take action now.

Michael J Davis wrote:

My third objection (also slippery slope case) is that our National Health service - although good - is struggling. Right now some are suggesting that smokers may not be entitled to the same level of care as others, ditto obese,

Well it doesn't seem to implausible to suggest that, given a choice between treating someone who is the victim of circumstances or a disease beyond their control, and treating someone who knowingly brought about his condition through his/her own actions (and may well do the same again after being treated), then with limited resources, the first person is the one who should be given the treatment, for a variety of reasons, some moral, some practical. I honestly can't see that that is hugely connected with a slippery slope from voluntary to involuntary euthanasia. I don't see any reason to believe that the people who believe smokers should have a lower priority in care for smoking-related illnesses are particularly going to be the same people as those arguing for some kind of euthanasia as the arguments are for the most part different. Yes, in your following paragraph you described a possible connection - but the connection you described seems to me to be plausible only in the sense that you could probably find a way to connect almost anything with anything else.

You may not be fully aware of the Harold Shipman case - a Doctor in Manchester who is believed to have killed hundreds of his patients in the last twenty years. - Convicted and sentenced about three years ago, he managed to commit suicide in prison. That has done little to inspire confidence in the medical profession. Those who should have recognised patterns of mortality in his practice, singularly failed to do so.

Sorry, but I'm struggling to see the relevence to the Joffe bill of the existence of a person who happened to be a doctor and who chose to murder lots of other people. Yes, murderers and mass-murderers and all sorts of other bad people exist. So what? How does the existence of such people provide a justification for denying a patient with a terminal illness and in great suffering from having the end and the relief from their suffering that they wish?

Simon
http://www.simonrobinson.com
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