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The Power of the SCOTUS III: Roberts' Rules of Order

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Rover said:
I come down simply on the question of viability. Beyond that point if a state govt wants to ban with the exception of medical issues or a rape/incest issue I don't have a problem.
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Should we dispose of old people if they no longer can take care of themselves?
 
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Bob Gray said:
Should we dispose of old people if they no longer can take care of themselves?
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Depends on who the old people are and how much good will they've built up. Translation: You're screwed Bob. :D:cool:
 
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Rover said:
Depends on who the old people are and how much good will they've built up. Translation: You're screwed Bob. :D:cool:
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Back in the day, we had a draft board which had the "Congratulations!" letter sent to local 18 year old males.

Maybe, some day in the future, we'll have a 4th of July parade for the whole town past a Selection Board. Those that are fit, go to the left. Those that are not, well...


Said in sarcasm and in great trepidation
 
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Bob Gray said:
Should we dispose of old people if they no longer can take care of themselves?
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No, but we probably shouldn't be giving them transplants, either. More palliative care and less extreme measures to merely lengthen life would do wonders for health care costs in this country.

Likewise, better availability of birth control would do wonders for the abortion rate. You can even be a "life begins at conception" person and still support increased birth control.
 
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unofan said:
Likewise, better availability of birth control would do wonders for the abortion rate. You can even be a "life begins at conception" person and still support increased birth control.
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I'm all for this. More sex and less babies is a win for everyone involved.
 
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joecct said:
Back in the day, we had a draft board which had the "Congratulations!" letter sent to local 18 year old males.

Maybe, some day in the future, we'll have a 4th of July parade for the whole town past a Selection Board. Those that are fit, go to the left. Those that are not, well...
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Doing remakes is all the rage in Hollywood these days....your scenario sounds like a remake of Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery." :eek:
 
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You seriously set yourself up to Godwin the thread based on your own comment?
 
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I thought the Colorado river was going into their lawns, which is why it will be gone in 20 years and why I own guns to fight off dirty westerners trying to get my fresh water.

:D
 
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Kepler said:
You live in Arizona.

You don't have a lawn.

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Then what did I mow monday after work?

Little known fact. There is plenty of water for Arizona's 6 million residents. Agriculture in Arizona still uses by far the vast majority of water, with municipal/residential uses constituting a small fraction.
 
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joecct said:
Back in the day, we had a draft board which had the "Congratulations!" letter sent to local 18 year old males.

Maybe, some day in the future, we'll have a 4th of July parade for the whole town past a Selection Board. Those that are fit, go to the left. Those that are not, well...
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The real life version of Shirley Jackson's "lottery" - each 4th of July, everyone over the age of 65 draws slips of paper. A certain percentage of those slips of paper have black dots drawn on them. Each oldster who draws a dotted slip is 'released', like in The Giver, by lethal injection. Guaranteed way to keep those Obamacare costs down. ;)

unofan said:
You can even be a "life begins at conception" person and still support increased birth control.
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Except you can't. Most theocons will preach that sex which in any way interferes with the possibility of conception is a sin. :rolleyes:
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Most theocons will preach that sex which in any way interferes with the possibility of conception is a sin.
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Perhaps it's just a matter of degree...there is a wide swath of Protestant belief in which preventive birth control is just fine while post-conception birth "control" is murder. Even the morning after pill is okay with these folks because "human life" only begins after the fertilized egg implants in the uterine wall. If the fertilized egg is flushed from the womb before it implants, even that is okay with them.

Not sure how in vitro fits within this view....
 
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