tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post6313255271322309446..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: Ian Dowbiggin: A scandal in the euthanasia archivesAlex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-78985895369448312632015-11-30T11:55:52.942-05:002015-11-30T11:55:52.942-05:00"For example, despite his knowledge of widesp..."For example, despite his knowledge of widespread Nazi murder of people with disabilities, in 1943 the ESA’s president thought it was a good idea to legalize euthanasia in time for returning veterans who suffered from mental and physical wounds." So the soldiers went to stop these crimes against humanity only to face the prospect of being on their receiving end back home! This reference to the Nazis reminds me of a quote I found from Malcolm Muggeridge: "Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other."<br />Muggeridge had a comment about the Holocaust that similarly explains abortion and mercy killing: the denial of morality in favour of an arbitrary practical materialism: "Initially, the holocaust was aimed, not against Jews or Slavs, but against handicapped Aryan Germans, and was justified, not by racial theories, but by Hegelian utilitarianism, whereby what is useful is per se good…" Malcolm Muggeridge, The Humane Holocaust <br />Jeffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10467105105121761556noreply@blogger.com