Religious Man left his Daughter to die

[Slimebeast]

NJ5 said:

Slimebeast said:

NJ5 said:

Slimebeast said:
It's not murder. They just let nature have it's course.

Btw, she is in heaven now instead of this cruel world.

Strange coming from someone with medical education. Oh wait, I've just been gamed, you're joking right?

This distinction from natural and artificial is irrelevant IMO. How is medical help different from an advanced form of wolves licking each other's wounds?

 

Im not really joking. I used the passive-natural aspect as a contrast to his intent-murder claim.

How is dying from inaction any more natural than a person healing another one? Aren't we all part of nature, and by extension everything we do?

I really dislike this false natural/artificial distinction. Why do some of us pretend man =/= nature?

 

First, I wasn't taking any stance about the healing. And yes, any intelligent person can see that it's obviously not the case that 'they let nature have it's course' like I said (since they were actively praying for a divine miracle). So perhaps it suggests I was just trying to make a point to FootballFan's murder accusations, right?

So I may have not been completely serious, but it still doesn't mean I was joking (but it was a third option, I was making a point).

And my point about inaction bares relevance. Let's say you as a by-stander witness a guy being beaten to death. The law doesn't require you to stop it. In fact, I don't think there's laws against people not helping wounded they stumble upon in a traffic accident (unless they were part of it of course). Not that the case father-child is exactly the same, but it's definately not murder, that's for sure.

I dislike the mythification among the general populace about some magical distinction between natural and artificial as well, although I'd say there still is a difference, it's just not that black and white.