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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago

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

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

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 insurance and pharma pricing.

Edit: Downvote all you like, but Luigi isn't a folk hero without reason.

[–] OccamsRazer@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Hospitals want to drain your estate of every dime while insurance companies want you to die as soon and as cheaply as possible. It's a beautiful balance.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

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

[–] bss03 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 2 days ago

But technically humans are part of nature!

Lol, how absurd.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

Didn't say they did. Just "easier"

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's totally besides the point. The reason humans get to say when a pet should be euthanized is just because animals aren't capable of deciding it and communicating it.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nope, not when a perfectly healthy happy good dog is put down because the owner find it best, or when an animal shelter put down animals they can't find homes for, or when a Zoo put down young animals, because their cuteness has been expended, and the zoo doesn't want more grown animals.
In all these cases there is absolutely no reason to think the animal wants to die. So it is not about communication, it's because an animal is a thing you can own and do with what you want, as long as it isn't too cruel.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

That's not euthanasia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia

Quote:

Euthanasia ... is the practice of intentionally ending life to eliminate pain and suffering.