Alexei_Kirillov
Missed my appointment with Death
- Mar 9, 2024
- 737
I was watching an interview the other day with one of my favourite YouTubers (JJ McCullough) and because he's Canadian, the topic of MAID came up.
Him and the interviewer expressed their utter indignation at the idea of an expansion to MAID that goes beyond the original criteria (incurable physical disease resulting in a reasonably foreseeable death). They thought it was obvious that the right to life come with no commensurate right to death, and that it was absurd to think that you have a right to end your life in the circumstances of your choosing. They not only mocked the idea of a world where a "24-year-old who's had depression for 6 years" could have access to MAID, but were deeply disturbed by it.
I consider this person to be a thoughtful, nuanced commentator, who doesn't take statements at face value and is always willing to dive deeper and question assumptions. I respect and value his opinions because I know that the degree of his certainty matches the degree of his knowledge.
So I was very sincerely taken aback by this reaction and it got me thinking: are we missing something? Is there some glaring issue that we've failed to consider when considering CTB? Maybe even an emotion that we don't feel? This just seemed so obvious to them that they didn't even feel the need to justify any of these beliefs. What am I not understanding here??
This is literally making me delay my CTB because I feel an intellectual need to make sense of what I witnessed in that interview. What do you guys think? Are they just a bunch of "pro-lifers" who haven't actually given a thought to the philosophy of RTD? What motivates this kind of visceral negative reaction to MAID?
Him and the interviewer expressed their utter indignation at the idea of an expansion to MAID that goes beyond the original criteria (incurable physical disease resulting in a reasonably foreseeable death). They thought it was obvious that the right to life come with no commensurate right to death, and that it was absurd to think that you have a right to end your life in the circumstances of your choosing. They not only mocked the idea of a world where a "24-year-old who's had depression for 6 years" could have access to MAID, but were deeply disturbed by it.
I consider this person to be a thoughtful, nuanced commentator, who doesn't take statements at face value and is always willing to dive deeper and question assumptions. I respect and value his opinions because I know that the degree of his certainty matches the degree of his knowledge.
So I was very sincerely taken aback by this reaction and it got me thinking: are we missing something? Is there some glaring issue that we've failed to consider when considering CTB? Maybe even an emotion that we don't feel? This just seemed so obvious to them that they didn't even feel the need to justify any of these beliefs. What am I not understanding here??
This is literally making me delay my CTB because I feel an intellectual need to make sense of what I witnessed in that interview. What do you guys think? Are they just a bunch of "pro-lifers" who haven't actually given a thought to the philosophy of RTD? What motivates this kind of visceral negative reaction to MAID?