Uh, if you kill yourself early the healthcare system won’t be able to extract every last dime of your wealth before you die. What, you think your family deserves to inherit it?
Religion, chiefly.
This is changing. In slow, small ways but it is changing. Where i live voluntary assisted dying has been enshrined in law since 2017
Because the foundation of everything related to legal framework we built, is human exceptionalism. And human exceptionalism has foundation in darwinian natural selection.
Tl;DR This is how world works
God this is a weird thread.
How come human laws don’t apply to animals?
Sorry to break it to you kids but billions of people all over the world literally eat animals every day.
Barbaric ? Perhaps, but it’s fair to assume that 100% of your ancestors in the last 100,000 years have delighted in this activity as often as possible.
You may not wish to acknowledge this but the reality is: your beloved dog or cat is a lesser being, assigned very few rights.
Obviously if you have a pet dog then you treat that dog differently as you would a chicken living in a cage in a shed with 10,000 other chickens in cages but that dog’s right to life is merely an extension of your rights as that dog’s owner.
Because of religious moralistic bullshit.
Good lord it is way past time to allow people to Euthanize themselves.
Good lord it is way past time to allow people to Euthanize themselves.
Mostly agree. I can also see the other side where there could be concerns about people being pressured into it for a number of reasons, so there should be some safeguards in place to prevent that (if there aren’t already). I don’t know enough about it to really suggest anything though.
Death with dignity really should be more flexible than it currently is.
Because humans apply higher standards to themselves then they do to other animals.
This is apparently an insane hot take, but personally, I don’t think it’s okay.
It’s okay to treat your dog as family and to reject the concept of “it’s okay to kill him if he’s in enough pain!”, same as they would never even think of suggesting doing that to a human.
– Frost
My cat suddenly became paralysed last year. What should I have done?
Found Kristi Noem’s account
Because religion.
People downvote but don’t read the name of the community the post is coming from.
It depends on the state, actually. Some states allow that.
Ibfind it ironic that to put an animal out of it’s misery is called being “humane” though to do it to another person is called “homicide”.
Well it’s the definition of homicide, which is just death caused by another person.
Society does not value animal lives as much as human lives. You’re free to draw your personal line elsewhere.
Dogs don’t pay taxes or create new parishoners.
Because legally, pets are chattel.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chattel
