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We don't like to think about death—and so we don't. State legislatures rarely grapple with assisted suicide laws in any serious way. Regulating death is terrible politics. And so death goes unregulated. But the dearth of debate and discussion doesn't eliminate assisted suicide. Instead, it pushes it into the shadows, where doctors will only admit anonymously to helping patients end their own lives.
We go from Christians, also Jews obviously, but also Christians, being not just persecuted but put to death, like Bonhoeffer himself was, was unfathomable. You wonder sometimes why didn’t the Jews see this and move? Couldn’t they see it? It was unfathomable to them that a country like this could happen. Same thing here. I mean, you think it’s just impossible for that to happen in America. And maybe it is. But maybe it isn’t. But what we do know is that if we continue down this path, that things are not going to get better, and that the chance of something really bad beginning to happen, where your faith is really constrained, or your lives are really in danger, becomes a possibility down the road.
Same thing here. I mean, you think it’s just impossible for that to happen in America. And maybe it is. But maybe it isn’t. But what we do know is that if we continue down this path, that things are not going to get better, and that the chance of something really bad beginning to happen, where your faith is really constrained, or your lives are really in danger, becomes a possibility down the road.
[W]hat’s weirder than our insistence on assigning gender to non-sentient machines is that we then sometimes treat them differently as a result. We’re sexist to robots. It would be funny in its absurdity, if it didn’t so harshly reflect the prejudices already ingrained in human society, and risk entrenching them even further.