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Peter Merel <pete@zip.com.au> writes:

> d-moss@adfa.oz.au (David Moss) writes:
> 
> >All it takes is a couple of co-operative doctors, and don't try to
> >tell me it can't be done. 
> 
> You're mistaken. It takes three doctors, plus the repeated written
> assent of the patient, plus a lawyer and a judge. Conspiracies of 6
> people are rare as hens' teeth outside the realm of popular fiction.

In living memory, not popular fiction, there is an example of ten times
that number conspriring to perform just this sort of illegal act 70,000
times in the space of two years.  Many more worked cheek by jowl with
them turning a blind eye to what was happening.  A statement like this
one of Mr Merel's just cries out for a counter example in the form of
a reminder of the Aktion T-4 program. 

> 
> >Wrong Peter, by opposing the RTI Act I am ensuring that _any_ instance
> >of one person deliberately killing another remains illegal. No
> >exceptions means no misinterpretations.
> 
> David, you know this is not correct; a large percentage of the doctors
> and nurses polled have admitted to mercy killing of patients, even when
> the law would define this as murder.

The point is without the RTI Act it remains illegal and those doing it
risk prosecution and will continue to do so if the act of one person 
killing another remains illegal under any circumstances.

                                       What you're proposing would ensure
> that these killings continue without control - without the oversight of
> the 6 people involved by the RTI act.

We have already established that a much larger number people conspiring
to circumvent the law is not solely in the realm of popular fiction.
Even laws which prohibit killing.

                                          Having no regulation of VE opens
> the door to all kinds of compassionate-but-mistaken killing.
> 

I would like Mr Merel to explain how not opening the door to the
killing of one person by another would *open*  "the door to all kinds
of compassionate-but-mistaken killing".   


Jan