Death the cure to all diseases
Death the cure to all diseases
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It may seem like this is different, but this is what all capitalism results in. This is an institutionalization of social murder. If they were not euthanizing people directly those same people would die of poverty. Especially in Canada homelessness is a death sentence. Theyd freeze to death if they didnt starve first.
Engels i think coined the term. Murder by societal neglect and denial of basic resources for survival. Canada is just so disgustingly liberal they decided the solution was to just kill them more directly because they see that as "humane". Its fucking disgusting.
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I used to view euthanasia as highly progressive and stuff until I realized shit like this also comes with it. Not that I have anything against euthanasia, my grandma did it when she was battling incurable lung cancer, but still. There is a large grey area in which people who cannot afford to live also get the option. Basically eugenics.
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It is a difficult subject because it incentivizes the government to unalive the elderly and heavily handicapped instead of helping them.
Combine that with the "invisible hand of the free market" and the result can get ugly quickly.
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Like many things it's ruined by capitalism.
In theory I have no problem with those who have painful terminal illness choosing to go out on their own terms with peace and dignity.
In practice it's just Kkklanadian Aktion T4
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It gets worse now that it's being made available to people with disabilities and now with mental illness too. In Belgium there's precedent for people being euthanised for being for autism. Only difference from the Nazis is that at least the Hans Asperger didn't try to convince his patients they had to die.
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This is coercion. The state can't provide adequate living conditions but can provide a swift death.
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Not that swift, it seems
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It's every stage of capitalism. The cumulative waste and suffering inflicted by capitalism might be humanities greatest tragedy.
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I explained MAID to a friend recently and they completely blew off the whole thing with impoverished people being forced into "choosing" death. "I assume it's only a few cases of that and besides, it's good that terminally ill people or people in massive chronic pain can choose to go on their own terms."
Liberalism is a death cult.
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Even if it is only a few cases that's a few instances of people dying unnecessary and preventable deaths. We just have such a sick society that it's no longer 'one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic', rather 'one death is a statistic, and a million deaths is a statistic'.
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The phrase "late stage capitalism" is deserving of the marxist eye roll.
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Late stage Fascism
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This showed up in my feed right below "Kim Jong-un attends opening of 10,000 new apartments in Hwasong district". I was just looking at it thinking "we could really use 10,000 new apartments in Toronto."
The irony is just so stark. North Korea is supposed to be the scariest place on earth, but it's right here at home that we have "housing so unaffordable you can just die instead."
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Social death.
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Man i fucking hate the way yall talk about this shit every single time, saying that what should actually happen is that the sate helps these people is all fine and well and even true, but that's not reality that's not gonna happen and people cant or wont wait for the left in canada to get its shit together, if maid didn't exists these people wouldn't get help they would just live in misery (enough misery that they would literally rather die) for decades or kill themselves some other less assured more painful way.
It is a good thing that maid exists even in cases like these, it doesn't feel right but it is.
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