Vera Mont

Well, alll right!

Because I trust self-righteous, interfering power freak even less. I have no current problem with eugenics. And that's why I would rather have me than...

If your views become popular enough, there will be no more assisted and no palliative care and no food production or electric power, so the whole issu...

I have no choice. I had no choice - or only very limited choice - for most of my life but to live under governments that made discriminatory laws, stu...

The operative word there is "part". It is what they do - and they can change to another occupation - in fact, many people nowadays have to change seve...

Worst case? Truly horrendous. One guy's delusion is that the Jews conspired to thwart his artistic ambition and his nation's aspiration to greatness, ...

Anyway, how far can you trust a loving, merciful god who would condemn you to eternal suffering for refusing to prolong the undeserved suffering he'd ...

In the concluding paragraph, I took personal identities to mean something more fundamental than wearing a badge or saying you're a doctor when you cha...

I thought the protagonist and his author deserved a vigorous defence.

In accordance with the OP question, that's what is being challenged. Yes, I didn't want to wade into that particular quagmire. Children are usually cl...

Any identity assigned by another person should be challenged asap. In the case a child's assigned identity, it takes years for the child to realize wh...

You can challenge their credentials, their qualifications, their decisions and their motives - but if you don't believe their self-professed identitie...

No. I reject the claim that quality palliative care is available to all who need it. If you know it will be born with serious birth defects, yes. If y...

No, it is knowingly, deliberately and demonstrably false. If you're pretending to be a police officer (no caps required for occupations) as a practica...

"Objectively immoral" is an oxymoron - or at the very least, a subjective proposition. I strongly believe it's immoral to force thousands of people to...

Back when I drank spirits, even the low-end stuff was more expensive than scotch and way more expensive rum, vodka, tequila or rye. For cheap, we went...

Both bodies are about to be shipped off to the coroner's morgue for autopsy. As soon at the bullets are recovered, we'll send them right over to balli...

I thought it was meant to be part of the irony: to introduce a popular academic who, as stereotype, should be driving sedately in the slow lane, not r...

I didn't say all men or some men or any men; I said it was predictable that men, collectively though not universally, do this. Some women also do it, ...

NOT ALL MEN are in the story. Just the one arrogant rich boy who feels entitled to break rules. What - like feminists? They're not in the story, eithe...

It's unfortunate that that men predictably think of their modes of transport as female. The machine has no sex, gender or affiliation: that's only in ...

I liked it just for being anti-story. And a little weird.

Not merely speak, but be flippant! But if you reduced the firepower a bit for credibility, it's a good story.

Since when is armagnac cheap? But I guess that's not important; what's important is having enough light to see it. After the second or third predictio...

So do I. Having had several beloved pets professionally put down after painful deliberation, and having killed a number of maimed victims of of predat...

Yes; Soylent Green any minute now. But I suspect it won't be the result of legal laxity; there isn't time for a slide down a gentle slope. It will the...

I love a radical idea - especially if it has to do with fiction. Beam me up, Captain.

Cruel and ever so slightly derivative, but it's a good story. (The fat cat doesn't hunt; he occupies the most comfortable available chair and keeps hi...

It's a high-end car, designed with all possible protections for the passenger. He probably paid extra for that feature and didn't even notice.

Well, anyway, the Romans weren't. They not only appropriated the Greek pantheon wholesale, they went on to Ramanize and then Christianize, all the Eur...

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/suicide-mortality/suicide.htm Florida and Texas way out in front of Oregon, Washington D.C., Hawaii, Washing...

So, the burden of your argument is that every case of suicide researched and planned by persons of sound mind fail to meet your criteria for good reas...

I know what it's supposed to mean and is sometimes naively believed to mean in countries that are supposed to be and are sometimes naively believed to...

You keep pretending that's a viable option for everyone in terminal distress. And of course, if you add the depredations of covid et al, plus rapidly ...

They're not even allowed to. But, in a sense, they already took the initiative on all our behalf when they petitioned and testified before one court a...

Good thinking! I couldn't see past the revulsion. But then, too, how much good could I organize in the ??decade I may have left?

No. I'm stating that all forms of government, in order to be effective, do need the rule of law. Some codes are not to our our taste, but they are nev...

It isn't necessary. There are plenty of people ready to help voluntarily. Many of the strongest advocates of legalizing assisted suicide have been hea...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/03/12/the-koestler-suicide-pact/0e322224-2438-4b89-8e10-34564a557d67/ ‘Inseparable’ pair were re...

How does that relate to torturing people too feeble to defend themselves? Yes, modern western people are free to and expected to make their decisions,...

It's a sad story, but it rings true... at least, for the Middle Ages; not so much now. Obviously, the girl should enter a convent and leave the poor g...

An inch or so, and i doubt they could tell a juvenile from an adult or a sparrow from a finch at first glance. It doesn't matter: they're children, no...

They're not exactly governments, either. And they all become a military when need arises. But they still have rules of behaviour, understood by all me...

It's funny and rather sweet. I like that they're not perfect people and their distinct personalities are shown with such economy of language.

Where is it written and how and by whom is it enforced? It's a feature of human organizations.

Every form of government requires supporting institutions: the civil service, the judiciary, the enforcement agencies, the taxation branch, trade and ...

Eros (also Cupid) is the little boy. Aphrodite (also Venus) is the goddess of love. She sends him to shoot people with his little arrow to make them f...

I haven't. As far as I know, no Canadian doctor under the new law does. And it's not as if compassionate caregivers haven't been assisting terminal pa...

Of course. They are staffed by people and people have their own ideas about what they 'should'. That's autonomy. They have changed. Everything changes...

Yes, and no. Yes to the first half: I consider some philosophical positions extreme, some absurd, some outlandish and some just wrong. That's an opini...