>[WS:] It would be interesting to to know why the 11%
>think that involuntary death by an executioner is OK,
>but voluntary death by a physician is not.
Classic authoritarian personality disorder. Assisting a suicide is bad because its proscribed. (Not the other ways around, an authoritarian simply doesn't think that way.) Whereas of course an execution is good because it is prescribed.
People with authoritarian personality disorder doesn't ask why, they simply ask whether it is prescribed or proscribed. Unless of course they are the ones doing the prescribing or proscribing, in which case they will do so according to a holy book or something. Thinking these things through and making up their mind for themselves, is not only impossible for them, it is unthinkable.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas