On May 19, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
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> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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>> % finding morally acceptable
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>> death penalty 62
> --
>> doctor-assisted suicide 51
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> [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.
The correct percentage is unknowable from those two numbers, but it certainly is far, far higher than "11%"--which assumes that *all* the 51 percent who favor the right to a decent death (the necessary correlate of any genuine "right to life") also favor the death penalty. The reverse is much more likely to be the case for most of that 51%.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos