Nanny Staters: Old World And New
The White House refuses to drop its insipid case against Oregon’s assisted suicide law. In yet another a blow to small-government conservatives everywhere, the Bush White House continues to press an issue classically left up to the states. My opinon? Nobody forces doctors to assist in suicides, so the ones who wish to refuse are perfectly free to do so. If you’re terminal, in horrendous pain, and qualify for assistance under Oregon’s fairly stringent criteria, there’s probably not much point in being alive anyway. Sometimes a shorter term of suffering is the only way to improve the situation.
Across the pond, an extremely fat man with a genetic disorder has been taken into custody for being an extremely fat man with a genetic disorder. This is where the slippery slope of health-related bans goes, folks. First they take smoking out of bars, then they want to tax fast food, then the CDC’s dietary recommendations propose nigh-on starvation in the name of losing weight not being healthy, pretty soon they’re hauling the fat off to fat prison.
