On 10/24/2010 1:17 PM, Neeum Zawan wrote:
> Patrick Elliott<sel### [at] npgcablecom>  writes:
>
>>> And for those, if this is a problem, then the problem isn't religion,
>>> but one of not having any regulations that require emergency room
>>> patients to be treated.
>>>
>> There is that too... Which is idiotic, in this day and age, but no more
>> idiotic than letting someone's house burn down, with pets inside, based
>> on a lack of paying a "fee" for out of town response. Try that one in
>> California fire country...
>
> There was a long discussion over this in this newsgroup some months ago,
> and I don't find it all that idiotic.
>
>
Interestingly enough.. I see this sort of thing as much the same issue 
that the the religious often use to support the idea of "sanctity of 
life". The difference, as I see it, is that they often find very little 
cause for considering the value and sanctity of *one* life, if the trade 
is the loss of both *or* just the one they claim to care about less 
(such as the mother, in cases where the odds of the mother dying, if 
birth is attempted, is like 99%, while the child's survival, especially 
if premature, might only be 50%). For me, having to draw that line is 
horrible, and there are many important issues involved in deciding. For 
them, its nicely spelled out, and all incidental facts involved (even if 
they are not all that incidental) are irrelevant.

One person recently put it this way - Ethics is what you do because you 
want to avoid hurting people, while morals are what you let someone else 
tell you that you should be doing.

The later hardly implies hurting someone can't be moral. Rather, it 
implies that, as long as you can find authority to say so, you can do 
nearly anything you want, then justify this, on the basis of "greater 
good", or the like, without *any* regard for those effected in the 
supposed "short term". Nothing relativistic in that, right?

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