In Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, author Wesley J. Smith lists many things which can go wrong, includes examples of horrible things already happening to people in other countries, and gives us a legal and social framework so that we can understand what the issues are and what laws need to be carefully put into place to protect us all; then he details for us as individuals what we need to do and to not do in order to make sure that others, including doctors and hospitals, cannot make decisions for us against our will, just by getting us to sign something naively thinking words mean one thing when they will be interpreted a completely different way, against our will.I really praise God for just leading me by His Holy Spirit to take Forced Exit off the shelf at a library. I thought that I would simply skim it. I read the whole thing. Scary at first, but finding out what to do and to not do, and how to protect oneself meant that the scary parts turned into just good reading. By the end of the book, I felt more prepared to face the future, whatever it holds.HalleluYAH, for Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, by Wesley J. Smith.
Death penalty? But why would we ever want to get rid of someone who had committed brutal murders or was a serial rapist?
^Note the sarcasm. People choose their actions. People should face the consequences for those actions. Some actions forfeit your life. Forgiveness doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences, it doesn’t mean paying for cable t.v. and medical care for life for the person who made you a victim.
Bergamot: I am not against the death penalty per say – what I am against is people being put to death who are wrongly convicted. One innocent person is too many and I would rather allow all to live than allow one to die for being innocent. Even when applied by current standards I also believe that it is misapplied. I don’t believe a person guilty of murder should be made a victim of the same crime – however, serial rapists and child molesters or child killers – or anyone who is bent on hurting children ought to be taken from this earth and made to face their maker. I am also against the kind of self chosen ignorance of anything when it does not support the currently held belief. We must approach life with a many faceted approach as life itself is in such splendidly mixed verity.
Murder-no appeal, no trial, no court appointed lawyer, no jury decision, no one to complain to about the brutality of the murder, for the most part no crime committed by the victim, no rights for the victim.
I recently talked to the father of a victim of the Columbine shootings. We agreed that forcing the parents to pay for the incarceration of the shooters would be the ultimate insult on top of the horror of losing your child. Legal executions are not murder.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 13 years ago
Seems awfully familiar with a certain Danish company selling to US states that then happens to also use it for lethal injections :D
chaosandcake over 13 years ago
Should one really be so delighted at reaching that answer?
Pelicanator over 13 years ago
Don’t we natural rights to ‘Life, Liberty, and Property/Pursuit of happiness’ ?
CoronellaKeiper over 13 years ago
In Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, author Wesley J. Smith lists many things which can go wrong, includes examples of horrible things already happening to people in other countries, and gives us a legal and social framework so that we can understand what the issues are and what laws need to be carefully put into place to protect us all; then he details for us as individuals what we need to do and to not do in order to make sure that others, including doctors and hospitals, cannot make decisions for us against our will, just by getting us to sign something naively thinking words mean one thing when they will be interpreted a completely different way, against our will.I really praise God for just leading me by His Holy Spirit to take Forced Exit off the shelf at a library. I thought that I would simply skim it. I read the whole thing. Scary at first, but finding out what to do and to not do, and how to protect oneself meant that the scary parts turned into just good reading. By the end of the book, I felt more prepared to face the future, whatever it holds.HalleluYAH, for Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope From Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder, by Wesley J. Smith.
bergamot over 13 years ago
Death penalty? But why would we ever want to get rid of someone who had committed brutal murders or was a serial rapist?
^Note the sarcasm. People choose their actions. People should face the consequences for those actions. Some actions forfeit your life. Forgiveness doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences, it doesn’t mean paying for cable t.v. and medical care for life for the person who made you a victim.
Jhonbaker over 13 years ago
Bergamot: I am not against the death penalty per say – what I am against is people being put to death who are wrongly convicted. One innocent person is too many and I would rather allow all to live than allow one to die for being innocent. Even when applied by current standards I also believe that it is misapplied. I don’t believe a person guilty of murder should be made a victim of the same crime – however, serial rapists and child molesters or child killers – or anyone who is bent on hurting children ought to be taken from this earth and made to face their maker. I am also against the kind of self chosen ignorance of anything when it does not support the currently held belief. We must approach life with a many faceted approach as life itself is in such splendidly mixed verity.
renewed1 over 13 years ago
Murder-no appeal, no trial, no court appointed lawyer, no jury decision, no one to complain to about the brutality of the murder, for the most part no crime committed by the victim, no rights for the victim.
renewed1 over 13 years ago
I recently talked to the father of a victim of the Columbine shootings. We agreed that forcing the parents to pay for the incarceration of the shooters would be the ultimate insult on top of the horror of losing your child. Legal executions are not murder.