I want from an account appeared in a recent comment of a (of our?) Readers' critical - and appreciated.
"One thing I have to say about" your absolute right to property "on life. If there's one thing not true is this, you are born without meaning to, not when you die is up to you and even if do not want you, you can all happen without your slightest wish, indeed. How do you say that you have the absolute property of that thing? "
This argument, I summarize for those who do not have time and want to go and reread the context, and 'was raised against a very brief mention made by Beiderbecke's right to property' absolute that has on their lives, law and 'led to justification of' euthanasia. With the argument summarized in those lines you should just wipe out the conceptual basis of condoning euthanasia.
I'm not going to talk about euthanasia in if 'and if' sensitive issue, inevitable and bitter. But I want to show, in a few clear lines if possible, that argument and 'dangerous from the theoretical point of view for a Catholic as our reader (and what the most 'critics believe euthanasia).
That 's it. We are born without asking and die against our will '(even though the first case and' more 'of the second clear: right or wrong from the moral point of view, there are people dying, in fact, their will'). This darkness' of our origin and our destination, which affects everyone, and 'a point that many philosophers have described in depth, better than we here can not do, and which, moreover, also a mind accustomed to the philosophy can not' very easy to grasp. The idea of \u200b\u200b"non-property 'of ourselves" fits, Curiously, both with a philosophy of 'absurd atheist and denies the immortality' of 'soul (' cause to live and make sense of things, if we are all waiting for one endless night?) as with Christianity (watch out, because 'I do not know' the day it 's time - the Lord will come' like a thief in the night - all is' in the hands of God, the hair of our head are numbered, and we Even if we struggle we can not extend one minute of our life [I have not quoted verbatim, and random, but cf. Mk 13, 37, I Thess. 5.4; Mt 10, 30]).
But if we start from the observation that and nothing 'in our property (or, again, because it' s in the hands of chance, or because it 's in the hands of God whose ways are infinite and inscrutable judgments), then it must follow, dear reader (and dear all they have been tempted by a similar argument), not so much a refutation of euthanasia (or 'abortion) as a demonstration of the absurdity ' action in its entirety. If everything 'absurd, or if everything and' Lord God, we might as well stop and not do more than 'nothing. But the 'action' essential. From a biological point of view and 'inevitable: If an animal stopped to ponder the senselessness of living (but reality 's just the man has this privilege) , a predator would eat him (a man, protected with' e ', generally, four walls, at least he would die of starvation). If a Christian lies in fatalism, then, or embraces a doctrine of predestination (possible option supported within Protestant - but also not 'then hangs doing nothing) or, indeed, contradicts its work for obtain favor in the eyes of God as a dogma, and as a practice.
fact, there is a fatalism perfect. There is not and can not 'exist. We act, we do, we move (at least in a part of our lives) as if that latent insanity was not there. I'm not saying this is the main feature of 'humanity' in full every time and place but at least civilization 'West: the ability', although they may think (feel?) The nothing, giving ourselves to 'be . To give rise to a space of reasons, concepts (and I apologize for this and some ears' too abstruse or philosophical).
Time: between these concepts are those of individual life and property '. It must be said that they go together and that means 'that each has the property' of their lives (and set, to establish laws, accordingly). If you say that the individual is not 'master of his own life, you have to justify this assertion, or falling into fatalism dell'insensatezza total (not unreasonable position, mind you, and 'mine too, I confess, at the worst-but then, gentlemen, no more' sense that not even read this ) or saying that everything and 'master But if God and God' master of everything really-all: and 'party' can not be, 'cause then it would be too limited and not' Christian then you must slide inaction to not offend with our interference. Inaction, on the one hand, it contradicts the doctrine of salvation through their own behavior and that, by 'other, in any case are not reflected even in the conduct of men of the present church, to do a trivial example, but good 'cause sadly the memory of all this, John Paul II' was kept alive (despite the threatened decay of all 'natural') from the machines. He was usurping the right to dispose of her body, of that life?
not think, at first, to apply to the discussion of euthanasia therapy, but has the same shape. Some might say (some say): the case of therapy and 'opposite, since they cooperate to life and as' doing it cooperates with God that life supports. No - I do not object in principle, but the question is not so theoretically row 'smooth as desired: A Apart from the fact that "cooperate with God 'is a trial that conceals itself' a great presumption, and that leads to limit the power of God (it co-operates only with something or someone whose action is' incomplete, in fact, and whose plans are clear), but here it is sliding back door to the concept of life as opposed to the death "and that of the whole life - as a project of a single existence, and in the draft and that 'in the hands of God (if 'in the hands of God) there is a limit to the first well that is not' in our right to extend even groped. (It turns out 'that in the consistent destruction of fatalism and physicians' lurking ...) If you wish to support the evangelical base extension in tutto e per tutto delle cure atte a continuare la vita come assenza di morte, come se questo tema fosse inequivocabilmente affrontato, come se un giudizio al proposito fosse univocamente deducibile dale parole del Signore, auguri - stiracchiate pure le parole di Gesu', il quale ha lui stesso oscillato, davanti alla prospettiva della morte e della sofferenza, tra il desiderio dell' allontanamento dell'amaro calice e l'abbandono alla Volonta' del Padre [cf. Mt 26,41].
Si potrebbe ancora dire: d' accordo, e' teoreticamente fondato parlare di proprieta' della vita: ma chi dice che poi di questa debba disporre l' individuo e non qualcun' altro? Su questo punto sono ben sicuro. Se proprieta' e' un predicato lecitamente applicabile alla vita individuale, nessun altro se non l'individuo stesso deve essere colui che e' concepito come in grado di disporne. Se cosi' non fosse (ovvero: se si dicesse che qualcun altro –qualche altro essere umano, in questo caso) ne dispone, le conseguenze sarebbero ripugnanti, e non e' necessaria la filosofia a capire quanto.
Se non sono d'altri, io sono mio, dunque. E ricevo questa proprieta' con timore e tremore.
Valete.