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Couch-bound woman's death raises questions
I can't believe Vivian Kendricks has the nerve to claim that Gayle was a
grown woman who could maker her own decisions. If you choose to spend every second of your life soaking in your own feces, only a moron would claim that you are capable of making your own decisions. -Dave amen ~Kat "help is on the way" ~John Kerry |
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"Gordon Burditt" wrote in message
... Is that true even if you have no responsibility to care for this person? And no ability to interfere? He had the moral responsability we all take when we chose to live with someone. Moreover, I live in a country where failure to provide help to anyone in danger is a criminal offense, unless providing that help would have put yourself in danger or been beyond your possibilities. If I had been a neighbourgh, and had known of her condition, and had done nothing, I would have deserved jailed from a strictly legal point of view. As a member of a community, you do have responsabilities towards the other members that you sign in when you implicitely accept the social contract. If I tell you and the whole newsgroup that there are starving orphans in Africa, and you do nothing about it, and one of them dies, is anyone who reads the newsgroup guilty of criminally negligent homicide? They're not part of our community and we have not contracted any duty towards them, and we have no easy mean to help them, so no, that would not be an homicide. But not doing anything at all to help them is indeed morally wrong. If you knowingly vote in politicians who aggravated the problems, you are fully responsible. Just like the Germans who supported Hitler and the French who followed the Vichy government and didn't revolt are guilty of the Holocaust. |
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"Gordon Burditt" wrote in message
... Is that true even if you have no responsibility to care for this person? And no ability to interfere? He had the moral responsability we all take when we chose to live with someone. Moreover, I live in a country where failure to provide help to anyone in danger is a criminal offense, unless providing that help would have put yourself in danger or been beyond your possibilities. If I had been a neighbourgh, and had known of her condition, and had done nothing, I would have deserved jailed from a strictly legal point of view. As a member of a community, you do have responsabilities towards the other members that you sign in when you implicitely accept the social contract. If I tell you and the whole newsgroup that there are starving orphans in Africa, and you do nothing about it, and one of them dies, is anyone who reads the newsgroup guilty of criminally negligent homicide? They're not part of our community and we have not contracted any duty towards them, and we have no easy mean to help them, so no, that would not be an homicide. But not doing anything at all to help them is indeed morally wrong. If you knowingly vote in politicians who aggravated the problems, you are fully responsible. Just like the Germans who supported Hitler and the French who followed the Vichy government and didn't revolt are guilty of the Holocaust. |
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