Comments on: Reason Free from Passion http://breathlessnoon.com/2007/03/23/reason-free-from-passion/ Religion, Philosophy, Life Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Basil http://breathlessnoon.com/2007/03/23/reason-free-from-passion/#comment-16979 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:43:42 +0000 http://breathlessnoon.com/2007/03/23/reason-free-from-passion/#comment-16979 One would have to be a Vulcan to not be moved by the tragedic dilemma which the above scenario presents:yank the plug on the baby and commit scarce material and human resources to care for those who still have a fighting chance of living(which is of course the compelling legal and logical recourse)or challenge the passionless law that places the power of determining euthanasia in a State seemingly devoid of the capacity for sentience,for compassion.If I were ever to find myself in such a heart-rending situation(though I certainly hope and pray not but Life has a way hurling curve balls at you when you least expect it),I would choose the redemptive course of mourning the child,yanking the plug and investing the love and care that I would undoubtedly have invested in my child in starting the formalities of the adoptive process and adopting a child.Only in doing this would I have made this needless tragedy meaningfully redemptive. One would have to be a Vulcan to not be moved by the tragedic dilemma which the above scenario presents:yank the plug on the baby and commit scarce material and human resources to care for those who still have a fighting chance of living(which is of course the compelling legal and logical recourse)or challenge the passionless law that places the power of determining euthanasia in a State seemingly devoid of the capacity for sentience,for compassion.If I were ever to find myself in such a heart-rending situation(though I certainly hope and pray not but Life has a way hurling curve balls at you when you least expect it),I would choose the redemptive course of mourning the child,yanking the plug and investing the love and care that I would undoubtedly have invested in my child in starting the formalities of the adoptive process and adopting a child.Only in doing this would I have made this needless tragedy meaningfully redemptive.

]]> by: Yvonne http://breathlessnoon.com/2007/03/23/reason-free-from-passion/#comment-15179 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:22:21 +0000 http://breathlessnoon.com/2007/03/23/reason-free-from-passion/#comment-15179 These dilemmas are always heart-breaking, and I never know which side to come down on. One would need to be Solomon to decide... You are probably a distributist rather than an anarchist. (Distributism was invented by some early 20th-c Catholics and describes the idea that power should be distributed to the lowest possible level of the hierarchy.) These dilemmas are always heart-breaking, and I never know which side to come down on. One would need to be Solomon to decide…

You are probably a distributist rather than an anarchist. (Distributism was invented by some early 20th-c Catholics and describes the idea that power should be distributed to the lowest possible level of the hierarchy.)

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