We are not challenging Dreama on her beliefs. We are challenging her on her confusion regarding euthanasia and PAS. We are challenging her on her lack of knowledge regarding the stipulations that must be fulfilled regarding PAS, and the limitations imposed. We are challenging her on her confusion between disability and terminal illness. And we are challenging her on her confusion between support of human rights, and denial of human rights.
human right politics is in as far as i am concerned is BULLSHIT period, it does not hold up to the principles as they proclaimed. it is just another para-legal term to swoon gullible public about what is right or wrong, in other words just another political excercise.
i Do not believe Dreama is confused about anything at all, I believe she was stating from a very stauch pro-life stance, and coupled this with disability rights, (now please DONT confuse this with human rights, as they ARE such disabiloity academics whose are leery of human rights, while on other hand, there also many of those who believes in human rights and have fought long and hard to be included in some form of decision making but fails, not because those advocates/academics failed, it's those policy makers fuckers who failed to listen or even fail to understand this double edged sword nature of philosophy
I can see clearly where Dreama is coming from,
when dreama has said this, "Plus you can't change your mind if someone helps you kill yourself. Sometimes seriously disabled people DO change their minds and were glad that they weren't alowed to die.
If someone who wasn't disabled wanted to kill themselves would you help them? Why should the disabled and terminally ill be any differant. " in this excerpt she meant to start thinking about how arragonce of abled people deciding when to finish off disabled people when they get close to being terminally ill or put other way, deciding how to hasten the death of the terminally ill disabled person (on the thinking they dont want to live' whereas that disabled person have a very real human feelings and emotions which of course they would be frustrated at being treated like an inhuman freak of nature but they are still human AND indeed they have a right to change their mind(s) !!
it is a difficult one to explain, here is another example of this;
as i have said before but i will add on to it, just hopefully provide a better explanation of dreama's position of thinking on this elusive issue.
back on topic, dreama, if someone WANTS to die from the worse case of illness and they get denied that choice to slip away into peace -death- the inevitable, then we are doing the crime against the sick. On the other hand, Disability is a form of sickness in which it stem from a particular kind of maltreatment from society in which they dont let us live to the fullest. However to extend the suffering because 'we tell them when they can die' is cruel as well? it is not?
because we assumed they want to die as much as we dont accept them in our society...this is that form of utter arrogance, a total insidious disregard for severely disabled people who DO NOT WANT TO DIE (YET !!!! - hence the NOT DEAD YET title !!!!!)Dreama is against
This is not different because these ruling is based on the premise that they can only do what we assume, that there is one reality, no adjustments, no respect for people to make own choices. If you studied Disability studies this is exactly what 'rights' centres on, now on that account of rights, the right to die is not much different to right to choose how we live?
the rights to decide how the most severely impaired people live and die DOES NOT LIE on the decision of abled-bodied people and this is exactly what not-dead-yet people are trying to say is....it is a horrible powerless struggle to stand up and say dont kill us, let us live, and stop pestering into our lives as we are not medical lab rats or medical problems - we are HUMANS too just with a greater degree of imperfection
Also lastly, I think Dreama does know the difference, just hasnt it occured to you that she doesnt give a shit about it, because this doesnt concern her, after all this is the whole point she was making. The whole excercise of "proving her wrong" could well actually show how arrogant d/Deaf people are to other humans with a far greater degree of human imperfection
its like euthanasia /PAS to dreama is the same, that's her point of view , repsect that, also the powers of the mind to perceive this whole thing in a different light is a gift - if you are willing to drop all the righteousness bullshit to the floor. its yours to experience to new 'human experience' and 'a new way of considering what is the value of human life'.
that is all , so up to you stop and take a silence and observe from this angle
i do not know if this post is going to help or compell others to lean over side of the fence for a gentle reckoning, well i hope.
cheers
