I used to view euthanasia as highly progressive and stuff until I realized shit like this also comes with it. Not that I have anything against euthanasia, my grandma did it when she was battling incurable lung cancer, but still. There is a large grey area in which people who cannot afford to live also get the option. Basically eugenics.
It gets worse now that it’s being made available to people with disabilities and now with mental illness too. In Belgium there’s precedent for people being euthanised for being for autism. Only difference from the Nazis is that at least the Hans Asperger didn’t try to convince his patients they had to die.
I used to view euthanasia as highly progressive and stuff until I realized shit like this also comes with it. Not that I have anything against euthanasia, my grandma did it when she was battling incurable lung cancer, but still. There is a large grey area in which people who cannot afford to live also get the option. Basically eugenics.
It is a difficult subject because it incentivizes the government to unalive the elderly and heavily handicapped instead of helping them.
Combine that with the “invisible hand of the free market” and the result can get ugly quickly.
Like many things it’s ruined by capitalism.
In theory I have no problem with those who have painful terminal illness choosing to go out on their own terms with peace and dignity.
In practice it’s just Kkklanadian Aktion T4
It gets worse now that it’s being made available to people with disabilities and now with mental illness too. In Belgium there’s precedent for people being euthanised for being for autism. Only difference from the Nazis is that at least the Hans Asperger didn’t try to convince his patients they had to die.