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Re: Creative Minority Report: Does This Sound Healthy To You?

MikeinCT — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:04:14 -0000

So Scotland is embracing Longshanks' desire for a Scotland free of Scots...

Re: Creative Minority Report: Pro-Life Videographers Cleared of All Charges

MikeinCT — Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:46:36 -0000

The point wasn't to put him in prison; the point was to take him out of the game while he was scoring. Intentional foul to break momentum.

Re: Creative Minority Report: Yeah, This Birth of a Nation Poster Should Help Things

MikeinCT — Sun, 17 Jul 2016 19:16:17 -0000

I'll say here as I've said elsewhere: Slavery's days were numbered the moment the Constitution was ratified.

Re: Creative Minority Report: U.S. Army to Foot Bill For "Medically Necessary" Sex Change Surgeries

MikeinCT — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 23:00:32 -0000

Seriously, didn't you know that 17% of all deaths in the history of humanity were due to the inability of transgendered people to receive the surgery they needed to modify their genitalia to match their inner perception? Finally, mankind can now address this as priority #1. Deo Gratias!

Re: Creative Minority Report: Yes, I'm Unemployed But I Identiy as Affluent. And Muscular.

MikeinCT — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:40:56 -0000

George Castanza would be weeping for all the opportunities he never even thought of.

Re: Creative Minority Report: University employee accused of hate crime for defending Catholic teaching

MikeinCT — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 16:39:33 -0000

CS Lewis wasn't far off when he predicted the existence of N.I.C.E., was he?

Re: Creative Minority Report: ABC's Once Upon a Time Has Little Red Riding Hood and Dorothy from Oz in Lesbian Romance

MikeinCT — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:35:14 -0000

Jinxed!

Re: Creative Minority Report: ABC's Once Upon a Time Has Little Red Riding Hood and Dorothy from Oz in Lesbian Romance

MikeinCT — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:30:22 -0000

Apparently it won't because it's already corrupted.

Re: Creative Minority Report: WaPo: Mom Who Smacked Rioting Son Is In League with White Supremacists

MikeinCT — Fri, 01 May 2015 14:54:29 -0000

So here's my two cents regarding the "Mom of the Year." People across
the country are applauding this lady (and I believe, rightly so) for
beating her teenage son on national television to get him out of the
(possibly lethal) danger of being involved in the riots in Baltimore.
It was, in my opinion, the right response and that's as much as I'm
going to say about someone who I know nothing else about. But on the
flip side, I find it ironic that many of the people holding this woman
up for praise are also the reason why so many other parents have to
whisper and look furtively around if they want to admit that they
occasionally spank their children (to prevent them from growing up into
riotous thugs) for fear of a visit from DCF, or worse, being arrested?

Re: Hundreds turn out as Connecticut debates aid in dying measure

MikeinCT — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 10:55:47 -0000

So then, you were against the Rev. Joshua Pawelek, a minister with the Unitarian Universalist Society, who spoke in favor of the bill, for inflicting his "twisted brand of morality"?

Re: This is how Hillary should always dress

MikeinCT — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:45:04 -0000

Muumuus are comfortable.

Re: State Dep’t Hits Back at Netanyahu: ‘Rhetoric,’ ‘Overstated,’ ‘Oversimplification’

MikeinCT — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:55:38 -0000

Saul Alinsky would be most pleased.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 14:51:29 -0000

The short answer would be the civic process in our democratic republic. But I think our discussion is moving into areas of political science, natural law, social contracts, zeitgeist, etc. I think we as a people are moving into a time when the notion of legitimate authority and the rule of law is crumbling before our eyes in a sea of moral relativism.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 14:13:55 -0000

Of course anybody can kill themselves no matter what law is in place. But I'm within my right to say that it is wrong, and that involves no coercion.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:40:14 -0000

Not to be picking on you here Hannah, but you've made the case that his reasons should matter. If he were terminally ill, you would be OK with his suicide.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 13:37:24 -0000

Twisted? Hardly. If Bob picks up a gun and shoots Joe, Bob has committed an act of violence and force upon Joe's body and life. If Bob picks up the gun and shoots himself, he has committed the same act of violence upon his own body and life.

I make no bones that I am a Catholic, so I believe that we are creatures made in the image and likeness of God. As such, I believe that we exercise our self-determination not as owners of our lives, but as stewards. Our lives are not ours to take, but to give.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:50:33 -0000

In all the same ways you would, short of killing them, apparently. Pain medication, treatment for their cancer if possible, therapy, hospice care, visiting them, letting them know that they are loved and cared for.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:46:39 -0000

Think of the law of inertia. A person through normal course of the day won't end up dead. The attempt to take one's life is where the initial force comes in. Lack of force, and other normal circumstances lead to the person continuing their life, until their body gives out by disease, disaster or old age. I'm not forcing anyone to do anything.

We did not create our own lives, and it is our nature to prolong our life as long as possible. We have no more right to take our own life as we do to take another's life. Life is the gift of our creator, and it is His to take.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:06:37 -0000

I would reject that self-determination includes suicide. Our right to life is inalienable, even from ourselves.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 10:59:45 -0000

We don't force anyone to live life, that is our natural state until death. Force comes in taking someone's life. I ask by what right can we take an innocent life, even our own?

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 10:28:16 -0000

You skipped history class, apparently. The New Testament was written down by witnesses to Jesus Christ's resurrection and intervention in the early Church, many of whom went to their death rather than just easily dismissing it as hogwash. It's plausible that people may willingly give their life for something that they believe to be true. It is something else entirely to have them die for something you claim that they must have known to be false.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 10:18:55 -0000

I know you were arguing against my point, but what I'm saying is that the same evidence will be used to broaden the scope of PAS, just as it has already been in Belgium, where they are already teetering on the edge of outright euthanasia. As a society, and with the current crop of politicians, both left and right, we are no longer swayed by arguments of reason, but by cheap appeals to emotion. "You're against PAS? What, do you want Grandma to suffer?" etc. If the door is opened, and I agree with all the points you made, by the way, inevitably we will succomb to the argument that this suffering over here is just as bad and this person should be allowed to kill themself. And this person over here who is suffering and unconscious, but cannot express his thoughts, ought to be allowed to die rather than suffer needlessly. And finally, this person who is suffering is obviously just better off dead, and we're going to make the decision to end their life rather than continue to treat needlessly and at our cost.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:44:37 -0000

Your epidermis is showing.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:18:15 -0000

Sarah, I have seen severe depression in my own family and I sympathize with the struggle you go through. Be assured that you will be in my prayers.

Re: Michelle Carter, 18, Encouraged Friend to Commit Suicide, Police Say : People.com

MikeinCT — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:16:20 -0000

And that's exactly my point. People saying, don't worry PAS is only for terminally ill people who are not depressed, are deluding themselves. You can't quantify one person's suffering vs. another's. It will all become a reason to kill oneself.