If you lie to start a war that kills thousands of people isn't that murder?
-----Original Message----- From: Judith Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 11:58 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: What's Murder? (Was: Anybody See Schiavo) If you see a man drowning and you don't try to save him, you're also allowing nature to take its course, but wouldn't his blood be on your hands? In this case, you have a person who could eat through the use of intravenous, which you have within your power to provide. Without that IV, the person dies a slow, tortured death. "Letting nature take its course" is still (morally) murder. And yes, I'm against euthanasia, although I don't envy those people leading a life where they're only being kept alive by machinery and have lost the use of their faculties ... Judith ----- Original Message ----- > > Judith wrote: > > If she's breathing on her own, without aid of respirators, but can't really > > eat or drink without help, > > then withholding food and drink is definitely murder, whether she would > > have wished to die or not. > > > > Are you saying that legally? Morally it's questionable since it gets > into the whole euthanasia thing. Legally I'm don't think it's murder > since it's not really 1st, 2nd, or 3rd degree murder. > > At most maybe it would be voluntary manslaughter since it would be the > intent to kill, but without malice. However if you didn't even intend > to kill, but just to "allow nature to take it's course" then how could > anyone be charged with anything? > > I'm no lawyer, but I'd say that it's pretty grey, but I don't know > much about criminal law. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:151047 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
