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- We regret to inform you that reality is real. cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physic…
- Replying to @tnajournal“We know that angry family members are our greatest risk (laughter).” –Dr. Ellen Wiebe, who has personally euthanized over 400 patients in Canada.
00:00 - New online — Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations, and not referred a single one to law enforcement. Read about the leaked documents, first revealed publicly moments ago by @AlexanderRaikin:
- “Angry family members are our greatest risk.” NEW — a major piece of original reporting offers disturbing revelations on how Canadian euthanasia providers rationalize ushering the poor to a “beautiful death.”
- Rest in peace, Michael Collins, who while Buzz and Neil were walking on the moon, wrote this in his diary:
- A frustrated Stanford Law student writes to an administrator on the school’s plan to switch back to online instruction. New on our website:
- There are two ways you can easily dismiss concerns that assisted suicide will just wind up as a way to clear out disabled, poor, and marginal people. 1. “But of course nobody wants that — the goal is *compassion* for those suffering.” 2. “But there will be strong safeguards.”
- Yuval Noah Harari's signature work "is fundamentally unserious and undeserving of the wide acclaim and attention it has been receiving." From: thenewatlantis.com/publications/a…
02:06"Humans control the world because we live in a dual reality. All other animals live in an objective reality. We have constructed, on top of this objective reality, a second layer of fictional reality made of fictional entities like nations, gods, money, corporations. The most - “A just society does not kill suffering people, it shares their burden.”I don’t know how the UK vote on “assisted dying” will turn out; I hope for the best, that is, for the defeat of the bill. But one thing that makes me nervous is that so many of the arguments against the bill have focused on pragmatic and procedural arguments from inadequacy of
- Replying to @tnajournalAnd what do you know -- this sure looks like what's happening right now in Canada, according to disturbing revelations there that @AlexanderRaikin revealed in 2022:
- Replying to @tnajournal and @AlexanderRaikinThe purpose of a system is what it does. That is how to understand Canada's experience with euthanasia -- and quite possibly soon the UK's.
- Replying to @tnajournalImagine if disabled people struggling to access social services were never *forced* into assisted suicide -- but more and more often had it suggested to them by the social workers whose help they were asking for.
- Replying to @tnajournalWhat you would wind up with is a system where nobody needs to want or intend or design it to achieve mass elimination of "life unworthy of life" for it to be really good at doing that.
