Category: Human Dignity

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Human Dignity
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, assisted dying, human dignity, human exceptionalism, Nat Hentoff, sanctity of life, Sonia Sodha, The Guardian, Wesley J. Smith}

Progressive Columnist Almost Embraces Sanctity of Human Life

_{Wesley J. Smith

January 14, 2025

Human Dignity, Human Exceptionalism}

It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. A progressive columnist in The Guardian writes about how she is coming to understand that human life has intrinsic dignity, but she doesn’t quite understand why. Still, something very important is stirring within her. From, “I Am a Rational Liberal, Yet a Question about the Sanctity of Life Floored Me,” by Sonia Sodha: Liberalism has much to offer, but there are risks in embracing it as an overarching political philosophy without a degree of humility about its shortcomings: its hollow silence over how to navigate knotty ethical issues where society needs some kind of shared understanding. This queasiness about morality means liberals sometimes look the other way when others smuggle Read More ›

The Seattle Washington skyline on a dark and dreary evening

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
July 22, 2024

Categories
Human Dignity
Human Flourishing
Tagged
, 12th and Jackson, black market, Casey Luskin, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, Community Assisted Suicide, cruel and unusual punishment, defund the police, downtown Seattle, drug addiction, drug dealers, drug-related crimes, Grants Pass v. Johnson, homeless camps, homelessness, Housing First, human nature, Jonathan Choe, liberal guilt, Michael Shellenberger, progressive activists, San Fransicko, SCOTUS, Seattle, Seattle City Council, shoplifting, substance abuse, Supreme Court of the United States, The American Spectator, U.S. Supreme Court}

Seattle’s Community Assisted Suicide Policies Are Killing the Homeless

_{Casey Luskin

July 22, 2024

Human Dignity, Human Flourishing}

Last month the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the rights of cities to enforce common sense laws which prohibit the homeless from sleeping in public spaces, such as parks or sidewalks where children play or families walk. It's almost absurd that the Court was forced to expend its limited resources adjudicating a controversy over whether such laws should be constitutional. Read More ›

a pile of carrots sitting on top of a wooden table next to a sliced up carrot

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
July 13, 2024

Categories
Human Dignity
Tagged
, Ann Coulter, cognitive abilities, Dan McLaughlin, Dave Portnoy, Donald Trump, George Clooney, national review, President Joe Biden, vegetable, Wesley J. Smith}

President Biden Is Not a Yam

_{Wesley J. Smith

July 13, 2024

Human Dignity}

There has been a lot of discussion about President Biden's declining cognitive abilities. That's certainly fair game and an important — nay, a crucial — election issue. But some have gone more than a step too far by using the odious V-word slur. Read More ›

Lonely sad elderly Senior person in wheelchair in nursing home looking out window. Generation AI

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Euthanasia
Human Dignity
Suicide by Physician
Tagged
, assisted dying, assisted suicide, burden, Dementia, Disability, duty to die, elderly, euthanasia, health care, illness, infirmity, Matthew Parris, old age, suffering, terminally ill, Times of London, We Can't Afford a Taboo on Assisted Dying, Wesley J. Smith}

Normalizing Assisted Suicide Will Lead to a Duty to Die

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 3, 2024

Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician}

Euthanasia isn't really about compassion but fear of decline and a loathing of dependency — and of those experiencing them. That nasty truth has become abundantly clear with a new column published in the Times of London. Read More ›

An empty hospital bed with dying flowers.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 21, 2024

Categories
Euthanasia
Human Dignity
Suicide by Physician
Tagged
, assisted suicide, Belgium, Canada, cancer, Compassion and Choices, death activists, Disability, Doctors, elderly, end of life, euthanasia, healthcare, Hemlock Society, human dignity, intellectual disabilities, lethal injection, MAiD, medical aid in dying, medicalized killing, mental health support, mental illness, Netherlands, organ donation, organ harvesting, patients, PTSD, quality of life, suffering, suicide, suicide prevention, terminal illness, terminally ill, Trillium, Trillium Gift of Life Network, Wesley J. Smith}

Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 21, 2024

Euthanasia, Human Dignity, Suicide by Physician}

Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›

Group of modern doctors standing as a team with arms crossed in hospital office. Physicians ready to examine and help patients. Medical help, insurance in health care, best desease treatment and

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 15, 2023

Categories
Human Dignity
Tagged
, Climate Change, gun violence, Public Health, race relations}

Say No to ‘Public Health’ Imperialism

_{Wesley J. Smith

September 15, 2023

Human Dignity}

COVID-19 mandates and lockdowns opened the door. Now, the medical establishment is redefining our most contentious political controversies as “public health emergencies” so as to circumvent public resistance and impose policies on society unobtainable through normal democratic means. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 21, 2023

Categories
Human Dignity
Tagged
, homelessness}

What the Homeless Owe Us

_{Wesley J. Smith

June 21, 2023

Human Dignity}

We often hear about what “we”—i.e., society—owe the homeless. But we rarely discuss what the unhoused owe us. It’s time for that to change. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 3, 2023

Categories
Human Dignity
Tagged
, Disability, John Fetterman, Terri Schiavo, trump}

Shame on Trump Jr. for Calling Fetterman a ‘Vegetable’

_{Wesley J. Smith

March 3, 2023

Human Dignity}

It was wrong when people called Terri Schiavo a “vegetable,” and it is wrong when Donald Trump Jr. wields the same slur against Senator John Fetterman at CPAC. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 5, 2022

Categories
Human Dignity
Tagged
, Human Composting}

‘Human Composting’ Promoted in New York Times

_{Wesley J. Smith

December 5, 2022

Human Dignity}

How we treat our dead reflects our views on what we think about the living. In this sense, human composting — and even more so, another growing practice of liquifying bodies and pouring the remains into the sewer — reflects a disturbing mindset that denies ultimate meaning to human life and views us, essentially, as just another animal in the forest. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 27, 2022

Categories
Human Dignity
Tagged
, California, end of life issues, Human Composting, human dignity}

Composting the Dead Devalues the Importance of the Living

_{Wesley J. Smith

September 27, 2022

Human Dignity}

Starting in 2027, California will allow composting of the dead. Known officially as “natural organic reduction (NOR),” this novel final disposition process transforms the deceased’s body into soil to spread on gardens or in which to plant flowers or a tree. Read More ›