11-17-2014, 10:11 PM | #1 |
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Shooting your Friend
If your friend asked you to kill them, would you? There's a lot of contextual modifiers, but I want to keep the topic pretty general in case someone has a "no, under no circumstances would I ever kill a friend" viewpoint.
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11-17-2014, 10:20 PM | #2 |
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I don't think I could literally shoot my friend. Say if I were drafted to war and my fellow soldier was suffering through a clearly fatal injury on the battlefield, I don't think I would have the heart to shoot someone I knew and cared about. However, if it was just a "pulling the plug" kind of deal, I think I'd be able to do it. Knowing that I killed a person, even if they asked for it, would probably weigh heavily on my conscience for a long time but ultimately I think I would be able to respect the person's wishes.
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11-17-2014, 10:40 PM | #3 | |
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If it's a matter of consent, then I feel like you'd be even better off with the battlefield example (where consent is unmistakably given and the relief from suffering is immeasurable) than with the hospital example of a patient who is being treated, given painkillers, given sedatives, perhaps even in a coma, etc.
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11-17-2014, 10:48 PM | #4 |
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I feel like I could handle the battlefield example better than bedside assisted suicide. On the battlefield, the guy is outright giving you consent at that very moment that he wants to be put out of his misery. If there's reason to think he's a goner anyway (like his entrails have utterly spilled out) you save him some excruciating pain by putting him down.
In the coma case, even if a person leaves a will, you have no idea what they're thinking if they're conscious somehow. That is in the same murky territory as abortion, where the target to be executed can't communicate with the executioner.
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11-17-2014, 10:59 PM | #5 |
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Well like the battlefield example is a more graphic way to die, which is why I don't think I could do it. Like if called to serve I think I could shoot at people that I didn't know (ugh that sounds awful but it's true I think) but having to look at a mortally wounded person that I know and end their life via a gunshot would be more emotionally traumatizing than just pulling the plug at a hospital bedside for me personally.
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11-17-2014, 11:13 PM | #6 | |
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Revisiting the battlefield example, I keep thinking of Forrest Gump: Spoiler: show Many have remarked on our society's difference from the generation depicted in the story Old Yeller. The generation depicted in that film were more than capable of euthanizing animals in suffering. Not just capable -- willing. Modern generations refuse to have a pet put down until it's blind, deaf, soiling the house, emaciated, and covered in tumors. Where old generations would shoot a dog with a broken leg, our generation takes the dog to a veterinary hospital to have its leg put in a cast or splint. People who can afford to are now seeking organ transplants for their beloved pets, where earlier generations would put a pet down, feeling you not only relieve the pet of its suffering but it's also the far more economical and sensible thing to do. Nothing highlights this difference more for me between the Old Yeller generation (meaning the people in the story, not the generation who grew up watching the movie) and our generation than John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: Spoiler: show
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11-18-2014, 12:29 PM | #7 |
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Yup.
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11-18-2014, 12:34 PM | #8 |
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My negative opinion towards suicide and those that commit it is probably at least somewhat known, so the answer really would be a no (although I may try knock some sense into them)
Although the example of the battle field with entrails sprawled all over the place would be a bit of an exception, if a person is gonna die they may as well die humanely and I wouldn't mind making sure said kind of death was the one that occurred.
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11-18-2014, 02:19 PM | #9 |
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I couldn't do it. I'm not strongly opposed to it, but I'm not a killer, even a mercy killer. If the person was in severe agony, or whatever, I would not stop someone else from doing it
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11-18-2014, 10:05 PM | #11 |
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The word suicide brings up stuff I'd rather not think about. Quite frankly, I could not bring myself to assist in it.
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