dave@teldata.UUCP (Dave Heppner) (03/07/84)
Kill, Kill, Kill. Under what conditions should we and do we allow someone to kill or be killed. I noticed in one of the articles that it was stated that it is alright to kill under certain condi- tions. I find the idea very scary. Who decides you lives and who dies? Do we do it by popular vote? How about by class? The problem I see is we could repeat history. In Germany, before the war to end all wars, they had abortions, and I would think that the people stopped finding that objectionable. Once that happened it was easyer to start doing away with the Jews since they were the reason for all of the problems? I would think that once that started it was easy to use them as a scapegoat. The people of Germany, not all the people, since they could get rid of one class of person it was probably easyer to get rid of another. This is not a slam against the German people, my contention is it could happen to any people. But could it happen here? This is a very simplistic view and it is not intended to change view points but to cause you to think about were we have come from and were we are going. The thing I fear the most is went I am old and gray, social security has run out, I can not work and I am just a bother to have around, is society going to say it was O.K. to kill under that condi- tion (abortion) so it is probably O.K. to kill the old and helpless. Besides it costs to much money and takes to much time to feed them, protect them from the thieves and muggers, and they do not contribute anything to society any- way. Twenty years ago it was bad to have an abortion, now it's O.K. Twenty years from now will it be O.K. to do away with me? Have we started down a road that will lead us to destruc- tion? When, how, and who will say we will not kill any more? If it is alright to kill who is going to decide who sets the conditions? With respect for life, Dave Heppner.
ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (03/09/84)
> ...is society going to say it was O.K. to kill under that condition > (abortion) so it is probably O.K. to kill the old and helpless. > Besides it costs to much money and takes to much time to feed them, > protect them from the thieves and muggers, and they do not contribute > anything to society anyway... Wow, a very good point. Let's all keep that in mind, so that we all recognize that abortion is not the same as killing a human being. If we all just keep that clearly in mind, there's nothing to worry about. Alan "I'd sign off now, but uh-oh, I might get back to work, and then as a side effect I might be distracted driving home, you know, thinking about work and all, and run into some poor pedestrian, so obviously I'd better not sign off, it could lead to horrible things" Silverstein