Comment on How come if my dog is sick and I take him to get put out of his misery its ok? On a human its not? How come human laws don't apply to animals? I think of our dog as family and he's one of us?

slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Including the U.S.

  The answer OP is looking for is: if you make it easy to kill people in pain you make it easier to kill people who aren’t. This is true for any animal including dogs our law just cares about their lives less.

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Countries that have assisted dying do not make it “easy”. Especially when someone isn’t physically ill, they throw every type of therapy and help at them to persuade them not to kill themselves.

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Another answer OP is looking for and probably doesn’t want to hear: most people value human life more than non-human life.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bad example. In the US it’s super cool to deny care for dollars. Illness and death are built into the system from for profit hospitals to health isurance and pharma pricing.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Killing people is not the same as letting them die of natural causes.

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      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Capitalist exploitation is a natural cause? That’s a wild take.

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      • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Next time, try it without the “Appeal to Nature” / Naturalistic Fallacy.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      www.cms.gov/priorities/…/emergency-room-rights

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      • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And for everything that is not an ER visit, go and die somewhere out of sight.

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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You cannot put a person down for being sick. Even in countries where euthanasia is allowed, the person has to ask for it, under formal circumstances following formal rules.

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    O.o

    So it is allowed.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh for fucks sake, it is not allowed to be the decision of others, only the person that wants it, and only under certain circumstances, like being terminally ill and in pain.

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      • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Certain circumstances can be “being very, very depressed.” You don’t have to be ill or in physical pain.

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