A woman in Austria is suing for "wrongful life" because she claims she was not told about certain risks of disabilities. How absurd that, we being Western culture, have grown so morally out of touch that we now sue not only for wrongful death, but also the opposite, "wrongful" life. ? ? ?
2006-07-14 07:44:21 · 6 answers · asked by Love of Truth 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.lifenews.com/state1752.html
2006-07-14 07:44:29 · update #1
U_R_A_ShyteHead, I don't think there is anything intelligent about it at all. As far as pushing the extremes, we have past that long ago. Now the only thing that is being pushed here is the trek into the land of absolute absurdity. As for worshiping the Sky deity, most people believe in a deity that is simply not a sky god. I don't know how many people know about, let along worship the god of the Sky. It is more likely that the people that do worship are trying to worship a God over everything, including you sir. And it is ironic that your user name reflects back to you when I must address you by it. Bet you didn't think about that one. It is an old wicken law that whatever you send out into the universe will come back to you three fold.
2006-07-14 07:59:44 · update #2
judy_r8, you are wrong there are many that have been involved in this debate that are capable of having a baby. I believe some of them have even posted a response on this board. And for those of us that can't know this, you don't have to be a chicken to judge an egg. That is like saying only men can judge other rapists.
2006-07-14 08:03:21 · update #3
chipchinka, first of all lets compare apples to apples. The right to die and a wrongful life suit over a baby being born is two totally different things. I agree to the point that people should not be artificially kept alive past a natural death. What exact point this is can be debated, but it would have to been an extreme situation before I would assent. As far as wrongful birth suits this is ridiculous as women should not be killing their children in the first place. The courts have been so bold as to allow this heinous evil, but now they are attacking doctors that don't influence their patients to have one. This violates ones religious rights which conflicts with the present laws, not that allowing the murder of preborns doesn't already as the first essential right our forefathers enlightened us to is, the "right to life".
2006-07-14 08:14:18 · update #4
I think they are just another symptom of a legal system that has gone completely out of control...
2006-07-14 07:47:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think its an issue of existential responsibility taken to extremes. In too many situations, people give birth to children without any thought that they're actually bringing thinking, feeling human beings in to this world. Perhaps even against their will--if you wanna get all metaphysical about it. And this bleeds over into other aspects of life. For as much as we like to pat ourselves on our backs for being "civilized" and sophisticated and everything, we're essentially ruled by our more base and not-so-enlightened natures.
Having said that, I can also say that in knowing that a woman has sued for "wrongful life" is not indicative of a legal system that's out of control so much as a moral and ethical system that suffers from severely stunted growth. In Western-dominated society, we tend to look at life as a uniformly good thing, but life itself shows us that it is NOT uniformly good, and NOT always appropriate.
If I were in a situation in which dying was the natural course of action, but other people's sentimentality and misguided do-goodism kept me alive in abject misery and excruciating physical pain, I'd want to die as well, and I'd probably be pissed off enough to also levy a wrongful life suit.
The absurdity of the situation doesn't lie in the fact that such thing as a wrongful life suit can exist...it's more in the fact that in some cases, wrongful life suits are a necessity. For as petty and cruel as it may sound on the surface, condemning a person to a life of abject misery and non-functionality is far worse than consigning a person to the innermost cirlce of hell. It is a situation that arises from a combination of arrogance, on the parts of some doctors, and immature sentimentality on the parts of people who push for such situations to exist. So ultimately, the question to ask is NOT why something such as a wrongful life suit can exist, but WHY some people would be driven in sheer moments of dispair (and possible physical agony) to consider the implications of choosing death over life. The ugly truth is, the people who love them the most are probably the ones who have put them in that situtation.
2006-07-14 15:02:32 · answer #2 · answered by chipchinka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its called pushing the limits of intelligence. Why not test the extremes??? I say go for it.
How absurd is it that we, who have come so far along scientifically, are still surrounded by people who believe in a sky diety??
2006-07-14 14:48:04 · answer #3 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty sad, isn't it that everyone involved in this debate is incapable of having a baby.
2006-07-14 14:51:14 · answer #4 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are told to not fight amongst ourselves, that we should take our problems to the church and not make petty suits against one another in the Bible.
2006-07-14 14:47:16 · answer #5 · answered by bryton1001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought you meant she was trying to sue her parents for giving birth to her.
2006-07-14 14:46:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋