MissConstrue3d ago

So, bioethics and euthanasia. I will preface by saying that my PhD was #bioethics based, and I support autonomous #euthanasia. (Which is to say, I believe people have the right to decide their own destiny, but do not believe the State has that right.)

Right to Die should be as respected as any other personal medical decision. I tell you that story, because an incredibly brave woman, Noelia Castillo Ramos, has fought her father and a bunch of right wing god botherers, the ultra-conservative group Abogados Cristianos (Christian Lawyers), in #Spain to be allowed to end her misery.

I respect her Ms Ramos’s decision, and hope that she finds peace in the Source.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/26/spanish-woman-wins-legal-battle-to-end-her-life-under-euthanasia-law

If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. In the US, call or text 988 or 988lifeline.org. In Spain, call the hotline at 024.

Spanish woman wins legal battle to end her life under euthanasia law

Noelia Castillo, 25, has struggled with psychiatric illness since she was young and tried to kill herself in October 2022

The Guardian
Show threadQuasit3d ago
@MissConstrue
If the State gets the power to end lives, it WILL abuse it.
Show threadMissConstrue3d ago
@Quasit Its why I oppose the death penalty, even in cases where my vigilante brain thinks “yeah, they need killing”, that is not a realm where the State should have power.
Show threadQuasit3d ago

@MissConstrue

‘I can’t understand you. Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. He deserves death.’

‘Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.'

At the same time, when faced with a ruling class which is bent on the extinction of the human race...what else can we do? Can we get them to give up all their power voluntarily?

Show threadMissConstrue3d ago

@Quasit Well, there’s a couple ways out, the fun way and the easy way. The easy way is to do what we did to the robber barons in the Gilded Age, we tax the living bejebus out of them. 100% tax rates over estate value X, 90% income taxes for the 1%, strip the tax code back to simplicity. Easy peasy.

The fun way involves everyone coming together in class solidarity and building guillotines. I think if we top a few aristos, the rest of them would come around to our way of thinking. It has to be global though, there can be no tax havens.

I jest about guillotines, fully recognizing the Revolution wasn’t fun and games and Robespierre was a bit problematic. My larger point is that if the aristos don’t check themselves, history has many examples of how that goes for them.

Show threadsu_liam3d ago
@MissConstrue @Quasit I don’t jest about the guillotines. Yes, the response to people who refuse to control themselves is ugly. It should be. People should control themselves. When they don’t, and when their inability or unwillingness to hold their appetites in check lands in other people’s laps, the result should be unpleasant enough that the survivors pass it on as a scary story for their inheritance.
Show threadsu_liam
@MissConstrue @Quasit At the same time, if mobs weren’t so ugly, we’d be tempted to use them all the time. It’s a worthwhile reminder that the choice isn’t between politics and happy flowers and sunshine, the absence of politics and controversy is mobs and blood.
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