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Fabian Spieker's avatar

Thank you for pointing this out. This is making me so sick. I'm only 40, but it's my father's generation that had their lives taken when a doctor deemed them unworthy of it. Right here. Not long ago. Just one generation between then and today.

"Do you know anyone who was born very sick and with health problems who then went on to live a productive life?"

The notion of productivity being the hallmark of life's value is the root of evil. Seeing human beings only in the context of their value to others. Classic utilitarian ideology. It's the strongest link between what happened in the past years and Nazi Germany. The wikipedia article about utilitarianism has been hijacked, making it look like some Utopian version of reality, but it's the exact opposite.

We must not quantify the value of human beings. What about the value of life itself? What about our souls?

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Patti's avatar

When you take God out of everything, which is what has happened, people fill it with something else. Lust for money? Power? Both!

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