From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Apr 02 2005 - 19:03:49 BST
Richard Loggins said:
The idea that a 'senseless unpatterned state is a
valuable state of existence' makes me wonder about
Terry Shiavo. Whose to say that she was'nt in a
perfect state of bliss until they pulled the tube and
killed her. Her brain scans showed mostly a soup of
fluids but as Pirsig points out in Lila, Quality has
never been found in the brain. Social and intellectual
patterns are not a mere extension from the physical,
but are independant of it. Until the SOM that
infultrates our laws is superseded by Quality, we will
have to despair the Quality-less decisions of our
policital systems. May she be blessed with Quality
even in death, tho life be better.
dmb replies:
Apples and oranges. The "unpatterned state" that results from electro-shock
therapy can't be compared to Terry's case. Its like the difference between
erasing a chalk board so that any number of things can be written on it and
melting down the chalk board so that nothing can ever be written.
And I think the President and every congress person who participated in
passing that ridiculously narrow law is guilty of violating their sworn oath
to protect the constitution. Waht they did is against the law - against the
nation's highest law. And they will use her case to further attack the law,
specifically judges who aren't sufficently right-wing. And don't even get me
started on Tom Delay. The guy belongs in jail. And speaking of prison, if
these religious fanatics were genuinely interested in promoting a "culture
of life" they might spend a little more time worrying about the 26 people
that were tortured to death in our prisons. Or the intelligence failures
that led to 9/11 and our current unjustified war. I mean, its seems pretty
clear to me that the current administration has a bit of a death fetish.
(The neo-con death cult.)
My family recently went through one of these nightmares. My late, great
father-in-law was at home on a respirator for nearly a year before he died
of ALS. As you can imagine, the idea that the US congress could reach down
into that situation struck horror in us all.
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