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Yep. Shows the hazards in having Big Government making medical choices for people.

 

Sweet ghost of Reagan, that's a silly and short-sighted interpretation of how we got here.

 

If the doctors are right and the attempted care would only cause more suffering for Charlie Gard, is it really a cautionary tale?

 

Read some on this story before doing your fucking thing.

 

I did. It's a brutal case. If you have a specific problem with my statement, feel free to state it. But that might require taking some sort of stand and we all know avoiding that is "your fucking thing."

 

It's a fair question, isn't it?

 

Yeah, like my milquetoast approach to abortion.

 

Posted this the other day. Thoughts, Tootsie Pop Owl?

 

I take quality of life of disabled children *incredibly* seriously, as you can imagine.

Like I said, this is a brutal case. Trying to use it to extrapolate out to broad principles is not easy. I definitely don't think it has much use as a political football over government-directed or free-market health care.

I'm open to the argument that this case was decided wrongly. But when you try to draw it out into some larger principle, I'm not sure I like any of the places it takes you. Do you want me to agree that parents should have an inviolable right to subject their children to experimental medical treatment at the expense of prolonged suffering? That the government should be the final arbitrator of all care decisions? Do you want me to put together some precise formula at which I'm comfortable balancing pain and lack of quality of life versus short extensions of life?

I'm not comfortable with any of those arguments.