The Spot-On Quote Of The Day…
…is awarded to Pundette for showing us all the darkside of this idea of passing laws that make organ donation the default option upon a person’s death and, thus, eliminating consent, specifically, and that is part of a piece of Leftist thinking, generally:
I’ve written before about attempts by institutions to change cultural norms by creating default options which “nudge” the masses in the direction desired by the elites. I called it “horribly insidious: a subtle extension of the nanny state where numerous decisions are pre-made and pre-packaged for us, and the exact opposite of what it once meant to be an American: independent-minded and self-determining.”
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…The whole “nudge” concept presupposes that one group knows what’s best for the rest of us. It’s elitist to the core.
And statist.
Spot-on.
I think we all forget one very important fact about the Left [even someone as steeped in, and devoted to, studying Leftist thinking such as me is guilty of this]: they want to institute a Culture Of Death.
Think about it: they want abortion widely and easily available, they believe bureaucrats should determine who ‘deserves’ treatments and medicines, they want to put man on the same level with animals, they want to destroy belief in a loving God, etc., etc., on-and-on-and-on. Death, to varying degrees, encompasses every Leftist idea.
Ooo-ooh that smell
Can’t you smell that smell
Ooo-ooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you
..This culture [of death] is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency. Looking at the situation from this point of view, it is possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak: a life which would require greater acceptance, love and care is considered useless, or held to be an intolerable burden, and is therefore rejected in one way or another. A person who, because of illness, handicap or, more simply, just by existing, compromises the well-being or life-style of those who are more favoured tends to be looked upon as an enemy to be resisted or eliminated. In this way a kind of “conspiracy against life” is unleashed. This conspiracy involves not only individuals in their personal, family or group relationships, but goes far beyond, to the point of damaging and distorting, at the international level, relations between peoples and States.
—Pope John Paul II [The Great], Evangelium Vitae, Chapter I, Section 12.
Bob, thanks very much for the link. I’ve linked back to you.
Suppressing the urge to put this in caps: You have totally nailed it with your JPII quote. Beware those who want to ‘nudge’ human behavior in their own preferred direction for the sake of efficiency, convenience, or worst of all, for your own good.
Thank you, Jill.
What you write about has been on my mind a lot lately, especially since I read yesterday about Dr. Donald Berwick – or, as I like to call him: DR. DEATH PANEL.