Category: Thought

Back in December, the 13th to be precise, I posted a piece entitled “CCF Must Think ‘Consumers’ Are Stupid?” In it I cited an article over at Green Is The New Red where the Center for Consumer Freedom, a “group that represents the fast food, meat and dairy industries,” clumsily “tied” The Humane Society to “terrorism” in 6 vague steps.

So in response, Green Is The New Red, “created a little contest called ‘Six Degrees of Consumer Freedom’,” asking their readers “to trump CCF by connecting them to real terrorists in fewer steps.” And, surprise, surprise, they did it, 4 days later. In two steps, no less…

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Well apparently, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s prime minister said Eluana Englaro, who “died on Monday night, three days after medics had removed her feeding tube, in line with a high court ruling,”¹Â was “killed.” Was this not the same douche bag who said Eluana was, and I quote, “in the condition to have babies,”²Â and that was a reason she should live?

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In reiteration to yesterdays post I have no opinion in Eluana Englaro’s “right-to-die” case. I see and understand both arguments. But at the same time her wishes to die, if she ever found herself in a state like she happens to be in now, were given in haste, from an “ableist” state of mind;

“A year and a day before her own accident, a friend of Eluana called Alessandro crashed his motorbike, suffering serious brain damage. In great distress, Eluana told her father: “If something like that ever happened to me, you have to do something. If I can’t be what I am now, I’d prefer to be left to die. I don’t want to be resuscitated and left in a condition like that.”¹

Who is to know what will happen? I’m a perfect example. I was merely amazing prior to my accident. But now I’m so Goddamned super incredible…

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Earlier today an article over at al Jazeera caught my eye. Then an hour or two later I was wandering around in a forum I recently joined when I saw a post talking about the very same case, yet, from the likes of the Guardian. The source of the details are irrelevant.

But the ensuing discussion was much too tempting for me to leave be. But something happened, I have no idea what, and I couldn’t post my two cents. So, lucky you, here they are…

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