15 October 2013
Nice to see my pal Bob McCoskrie inserting himself into a moral debate again.
Having first lost the fight against gay marriage, then losing his organisation's (Family First) charitable status, he now wants to get involved in the euthanasia debate.
As with all moral questions, Bob is on the wrong side, mainly because he gets his instructions from a book collated 2000 years ago from texts dating up to 2000 years prior to that.
In the case of the euthanasia debate, I can fully understand and empathise with Bob, because one of the central tenets of withdrawal of life-support is the lack of response from the brain - usually known as being "brain dead". This means that when an electro-encephalograph is hooked up to a patient's brain, there is no electrical activity, and the readout is a flat line.
Bob and Family First members are rightly terrified.
Once the legislation is passed - as it surely will be, when NZ catches up to the more enlightened countries like Holland, Belgium and France - the first people to have their brains scanned will be fundamental christians. They are clearly unable to use rational thought; they cannot see the blindingly obvious logical contradiction in a god's existence; they believe the entire, immense universe was created just so humans could inhabit less than one-quintillionth of it; they believe some bloke died for three days to absolve all human sin; they believe it was all created ~6000 years ago and that all scientific evidence to the contrary was created by Satan to fool people.
Need I continue that they are anti-gay misogynists?
There has never been a more brain-dead group in all human history.
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