Alfie Dies

[777]

To save a child's life? Sure. To murder a child. Never. I draw the line at killing children.

You have to remember you are talking to a Brit. What they don't want to happen again is another Ashya King:

Ashya King case - Wikipedia

The parents won that round but you are attacking their Holy Grail the NHS - Brits love that system and will defend it to the end. They can have it AFAIC, if and when it totally collapses (and it will in the near future without major reform), it will be disastrous. Covers about 60M at just under 2K/yr per capita and it's the 5th largest employer in the world, over 1.5M employees. Criticizing the NHS is too close to biting the hand that feeds you but that too shall pass.

Close to a cult of worship, which I didn't believe until I saw the NHS glorified in the London Olympics with those hospital beds and stethoscopes - propaganda you'd expect from North Korea.

 

[Matt Black]

Odd, because that's just how your insistence on your 2nd Amendment rights strikes us. I forget which BB member it was said it but someone very wisely said on another thread a couple of weeks back that Americans will never understand the NHS and Brits will never understand the 2nd Amendment.

And perhaps it's best we leave it there in mutual recognition of our lack of understanding.

 

[TCassidy]

Brits will never understand the 2nd Amendment.

That is because you will never understand true liberty. The 2nd amendment protects the rest of the bill of rights.

We have a saying in this country. "All men are created equal. Sam Colt made them that way."

 

[Matt Black]

Two nations divided by a common language indeed!

 

[Matt Black]

Whereas in the US all is fine and dandy: a Final Solution brought to you by 'Compassionate Conservatism': Oklahoma GOP candidate proposes euthanasia for disabled and poor to avoid food stamps

 

[Revmitchell]

Whereas in the US all is fine and dandy: a Final Solution brought to you by 'Compassionate Conservatism': Oklahoma GOP candidate proposes euthanasia for disabled and poor to avoid food stamps

Wait what? You go and find some nutcase who says something stupid and try to act as if it is representative of the whole country? Matt you are reaching.

 

[Matt Black]

The point of this is that much hay has been made on this thread of the threat of euthanasia being the inevitable consequence of 'socialized medicine'; the existence of this GOP candidate and his odious beliefs would suggest that the threat exists on the political right wing also.