Consenting Adults

[Revoltingest]

No offense but after some of your posts, I really don't think you have room to say that.

Au contraire! I personify the reasonable middle between the extreme left & right.
Restore sanity! Hmm...that would imply we once had it. Store sanity!

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

Au contraire! I personify the reasonable middle between the extreme left & right.
Restore sanity! Hmm...that would imply we once had it. Store sanity!

No, dammit! Keep Fear Alive!

 

[linwood]

I'm not biting this red herring, linwood. The Terry Schiavo case isn't even in the same league as the OP.

True, it's not in the same league but it is a part of the same topic albeit in a different direction.
Not too different a direction to deny a decent slippery slope argument

The burden in this debate lies with those who claim that dueling, and all of its social ramifications, and all the lives that it would negatively impact, is okay. All the rest of us have to do is interject reasonable doubt, which is simply what I'm doing.

Not at all.
You made a positive statement declaring that the rights of the individual concerning his own literal life should be subjected to the will of society.
I have pointed out in strong philosophical terms why your stance is inherently unethical and unjustifiable.
You have yet to counter my argument with anything substantial.
You have injected no "reasonable doubt"into my assertion.

Again,my assertion is that this life is mine and mine alone and ethically I am the only being who should have any power over what I decide to do with it.

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

I guess we're just gonna have to agree to disagree. You say the decision lies with the individual, I say the individual should not make decisions at society's expense. To each his own.