Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted to Drugs
Some drug user activists have likened the move to "eugenics" and say Canada should be funding more harm reduction.
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Wow that’s… actually kinda fucked.
It's Canada. We aren't the smiling plucky canucks that the international community thinks we are. We're tired, boss. We have some of the worst incidence rates for opioid addiction in the world, the most expensive real estate, politicians that actually don't do anything except self-deal and play culture war games, a massive overpopulation crisis, a jobs crisis, a grocery cost crisis (all told, they call it a cost of living crisis). They literally invented MAID so that people with terminal cancer can take the painless path out, but now it's being discussed for literally anyone who is feeling mentally unwell.
They literally invented MAID so that people with terminal cancer can take the painless path out, but now it’s being discussed for literally anyone who is feeling mentally unwell.
The people opposed to medically assisted death used this as an argument against it. I disagreed with them, didn't expect that to really happen.
I still don't disagree with its use here. If a person's life is not their own to take then they have no autonomy at all, but still.. it's jarring to see it actually being used this way.
If a person's life is not their own to take then they have no autonomy at all
That's just not right. Autonomy isn't some absolute, all or nothing thing. If it was, then everybody would have "no autonomy at all", because we're not allowed to commit crimes.
Of the full range of possible actions, killing yourself is a relatively small portion of those. Considering that death eliminates all possible future actions, I'd argue that preventing a suicide (of a person that's not dying anyway) actually preserves more autonomy than the alternative.
You're just arguing out of an emotional position and trying to rationalize it. If a person wants to die, it's their right to be able to do so. That doesn't mean society should just say "fuck it" instead of providing proper mental care, however.
"You're just arguing out of an emotional position"
So where did they make an emotional argument?
"It's their right to be able to do so"
And here you are inventing positive rights!
Where does this right to any action come from? If you are paraplegic do you have a right to walk? How would this right be granted? Do you have a right to psychically expel your kidneys (an apparently impossible task)?
The fact that you are unable to perform an action does not entail that others must perform it for you.
A cursory glance at your post history tells me more than enough to know I should just ignore you.
Yes it is and not being allowed to harm innocent people isn't a violation of your autonomy and never was. Grow the fuck up.
Considering that death eliminates all possible future actions
Highly debatable
the most expensive real estate
source needed.
Dude look at Toronto its awful, and that's just one example
You need to look at the cost of real estate outside of this country.
That’s not the point.