I read this today.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_re_us/whale_shark_dies
I know, good for me...I can read. Seriously though, why is euthanasia even an issue for any of God's creatures, including humans? Sure, we've been given dominion over the animals (if you read your bible word-for-word literally...I don't, and I'm willing to bet that you don't either, even if you think you do...but that's for another post), so it seems simple enough for us to make life or death choices for this helpless whale shark; that race horse, Barbaro; or our beloved family pet. But, then we get all up in arms when it comes to making the same decisions for humans. Why?
This quote is from the article:
"after every option had been exhausted to improve Norton's health, the team made the decision to humanely euthanize him," the aquarium said.
Did you read that? "...humanely euthanize..." "HUMANE"???? What's that? How can that be? How can we treat animals humanely, but not humans?
Here's the definition from our good friends at Dictionary.com:
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source
hu·mane /hyuˈmeɪn or, often, yu-/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[hyoo-meyn or, often, yoo-] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. characterized by tenderness, compassion, and sympathy for people and animals, esp. for the suffering or distressed: humane treatment of horses.
2. of or pertaining to humanistic studies.
So, there you have it. Humane treatment is, and should be, for both animals AND humans and we should all just back off and let people do as they want and call it good.
Here in the great state of Oregon, we have a great death with dignity law, which apparently has been used by nearly 300 people since enacted in 1994 (I think). Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Ballot_Measure_16_%281994%29. Our law has held up against a repeal effort, an action by the Bush admistration to stop it, and a visit to the Supreme Court. Face it...it's the right thing.
Apparently California's legislature is nearing approval of a similar measure, so keep your fingers crossed.
What's that you say? You don't want to be euthanized. Fine, then don't. As for me, sign me up. That is, sign me up when/if I'm terminally ill or lying in some hospital bed hooked up to a bunch of machines to keep me alive. I also don't want anybody to fight over me like they did to that poor Schiavo woman.
I should point out that I'm pretty sure God didn't want us to be hooked up to machines either. Besides, how is it that all these fundamental Christians who can't wait for the Apocalypse to arrive so they can meet their maker all want to keep everything alive (but the planet, immigrants, non-whites, the poor and liberals)? Apparently they don't want to miss out on the Savior's return.
13 June 2007
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07 June 2007
Saving the other inmates from Paris...
Apparently, Paris Hilton got sent home from jail yesterday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070608/ap_en_ce/paris_hilton
I have to say that I'm torn over this. First of all, I'm by no means a fan of her (or most other bitchy celebrity types). So, the thought of her going to jail was only news to me in that I hoped that she would be brutally gang-raped by the other female prisoners AND it would never show up on YouTube. Wouldn't that be awesome?
**Please note, that I reserve wishing brutal gang-rapes only on those members of society that believe they are more important than the rest of society and act like stupid a-holes the vast majority of their time on the planet. I do not in any way condone gang-rape, rape, sexual assualt, sexual abuse or anything else related to those terms under any circumstances and believe that there is a special place in hell for all those people (hopefully in the same room as Falwell and Paris). I apologize in advance to anyone offended by my comments.
On the other hand, after discovering that she was released early due to an unidentified rash, I can only commend the LA County Corrections Department for correctly assuming that Ms. Hilton must be infested by so many STDs that the only course of action to protect the other "clean" prisoners was to send her packing with a designer ankle monitoring device for the rest of her prison sentence.
It doesn't take much of an imagination to hear the industrial din of the lights going out and to hear the cat-calls and whatnot that are inevitable in every prison. (Having not spent much time behind bars (I'm not telling any of those stories...yet), I can only use the images put forth from some of the greatest movies of all time: The Shawshank Redemption; The Green Mile; Filthy Prison Bitches 3, 5 and 14; and, of course, Stir Crazy.) And, then, through all the noise, one can hear our dear debutante sniffling and scratching her rash at the realization that it had been 72 hours since she had her last drink and her last snort of cocaine. I'd have sent her home too.
I'm trying to clean up my language these days (you'll notice that I haven't posted in awhile), so I am unable to offer my true feelings about her, but let's just say that it rhymes with "What a bucking bunt". I truly hope the judge in the case gets pissed off that his sentencing order was not executed to his exacting standards and he throws her back in jail, rash and all. And I hope the rash spreads. And that it's a rare drug-resistant kind of rash. That would be justice.
About the only way this whole thing could get better would be for her and Martha to have to cell together and they both get Paris' STD. Sweet...
I have to say that I'm torn over this. First of all, I'm by no means a fan of her (or most other bitchy celebrity types). So, the thought of her going to jail was only news to me in that I hoped that she would be brutally gang-raped by the other female prisoners AND it would never show up on YouTube. Wouldn't that be awesome?
**Please note, that I reserve wishing brutal gang-rapes only on those members of society that believe they are more important than the rest of society and act like stupid a-holes the vast majority of their time on the planet. I do not in any way condone gang-rape, rape, sexual assualt, sexual abuse or anything else related to those terms under any circumstances and believe that there is a special place in hell for all those people (hopefully in the same room as Falwell and Paris). I apologize in advance to anyone offended by my comments.
On the other hand, after discovering that she was released early due to an unidentified rash, I can only commend the LA County Corrections Department for correctly assuming that Ms. Hilton must be infested by so many STDs that the only course of action to protect the other "clean" prisoners was to send her packing with a designer ankle monitoring device for the rest of her prison sentence.
It doesn't take much of an imagination to hear the industrial din of the lights going out and to hear the cat-calls and whatnot that are inevitable in every prison. (Having not spent much time behind bars (I'm not telling any of those stories...yet), I can only use the images put forth from some of the greatest movies of all time: The Shawshank Redemption; The Green Mile; Filthy Prison Bitches 3, 5 and 14; and, of course, Stir Crazy.) And, then, through all the noise, one can hear our dear debutante sniffling and scratching her rash at the realization that it had been 72 hours since she had her last drink and her last snort of cocaine. I'd have sent her home too.
I'm trying to clean up my language these days (you'll notice that I haven't posted in awhile), so I am unable to offer my true feelings about her, but let's just say that it rhymes with "What a bucking bunt". I truly hope the judge in the case gets pissed off that his sentencing order was not executed to his exacting standards and he throws her back in jail, rash and all. And I hope the rash spreads. And that it's a rare drug-resistant kind of rash. That would be justice.
About the only way this whole thing could get better would be for her and Martha to have to cell together and they both get Paris' STD. Sweet...
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