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I have to disagree with some of the comments made. I know in some countries those thirteen yr olds can't walk away. They are raped continuosly and forced into prostitution.
posted by
starr4all
on March 30, 2005 at 12:00 PM
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indiscretion
i wanted you to know that i am sorry for the comment earlier. it wasn't you that i had a problem with. i was projecting my guilt over feeling unaccepted. you see, i have sent off a manuscript to a publisher, who may very well sign me up. and i am afraid of failure. i have left you messages in the past, to which you haven't responded. i projected these feelings onto you, where they are not. my ego was saying, if you wont respond to me, then i will attack you. that's what i did. thank you for being my teacher today.
posted by
avant-garde
on March 30, 2005 at 11:10 AM
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I disagree with your analogy. Thirteen year old girls in Belize can walk away from men and choose to wait to have sex. The Catholic Church is not making them have babies at thirteen.
Terri's situation is not one where she has free will to choose her fate. No one can know Terri no longer is human. The brain scans show she has holes in areas that would process information and reason. Even if they do an autopsy, as her husband suggested yesterday, it won't conclusively prove her brain to be dead before the feeding tube was removed. I believe she expressed her desire not to be kept in this state for fifteen years, one of constant discomfort. The pictures we see of her on the news are years old and don't show how crippled her limbs are from being bedridden and unable to move. I don't fully understand why a parent would want their child to go on with an existence so terrible, but I can say I feel for their pain , for Terri's pain and for her husband's anguish as well. I wish they would let her go peacefully. I myself would have asked for a whole bunch of pain drugs.
posted by
the-loanlady
on March 30, 2005 at 10:31 AM
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fixating on religion
i find it interesting that you and kooka have a singular fascination with pointing out all the flaws of religion.
posted by
avant-garde
on March 30, 2005 at 9:24 AM
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Eh...
I wrote a comment with all my complex views about morality and the catholic "pro life", but it ended up as a full size rant. Check out my philosophy blog for it.
posted by
Gubby
on March 30, 2005 at 8:02 AM
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I simply don't understand so much of it.
The Catholics ...and I was raised one....turn a blind eye to all the molestation in the churches, too. It's not just Catholics, or Christians, it's seems to be a human condition. We choose which cause is worthy, and then something that is equally horrible, for some reason, gets ignored. I know we can't fix everything, but there should be some....logic to it. Seems to be less and less anymore.
posted by
Temple
on March 29, 2005 at 8:52 PM
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Painter -
I guess if one doesn't understand life, then one will fight to keep it going.
posted by
sannhet
on March 29, 2005 at 1:09 PM
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