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p3034558@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au (Daniel Meijer) wrote:

>David Moss (d-moss@adfa.oz.au) wrote:
>: Euthanasia banned in Australia !

>Now ban me from comitting suicide if I get cancer, or helping my family 
>members to do so too...

I have no intention of stopping you or anyone else from committing
suicide, that has been your right since section 16 of the Crimes Act
was inserted in 1975. Suicide is not a threat to anyone but the person
who does it. Legalising one person killing another however, is.

>: "Living in Australia" thanks everyone involved in the campaign against
>: patient killing in Australia.

>"Patient killing" is way too emotive...you're implying that the choice to 
>live or die does not rest with the patient, whereas in reality the 
>patient must go through a long and possibly complex procedure to gain 
>permission to die. Hardly corresponds with your image of mad doctors 
>killing on a whim, does it?

Less time than the cooling off period for door-to-door sales contracts
in NSW. As for a mad doctors whim, well I really don't want to get
sued for defamation, and the truth is not a defence in Australia.

>So it's not legal. That won't stop it you know. Now step into my private 
>life - thats the length youre going to have to go to to force your will 
>onto people.

Happens all the time when the police believe a crime has been
committed. Are you so pro-freedom that you would prefer the police
butt out of your affairs and not bother investigating if they have
reason to believe you were murdered ?

Libertarianism is attractive but true libertarianism, like true
socialism, is unattainable because of basic human nature.





David Moss,
personal opinion only.
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