Are people assets or liabilities?

I raise this question because of all that has been done by leaders over the past number of years.

Consider this; earlier this year, a 51-year-old woman got a medically assisted death because she could not find an affordable apartment that was free of the cigarette smoke and chemical cleaners that worsened her condition, known as multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).

A question; is having chemical sensitivities a reason to have someone kill you?

What about this; a 31-year-old woman who moves around in a wheelchair and has been diagnosed with MCS is close to getting approval for Medical Assistance In Death (MAID) after failing to find accessible accommodations that don’t exacerbate her condition.  She told the interviewer that she applied for MAID primarily because of poverty.

A question; is being poor a reason to have someone kill you?

Picture this; a 61-year-old woman received an assisted death, despite her daughters’ objections that she lacked the mental capacity to make such a decision. The daughter stated that it took a year to get treatment but it could only take four days for her mother to die.

A question; does killing a mentally challenged mother despite the daughter’s objections make sense?

Consider this; a newborn girl was left to die after being discarded in a garbage bin by her mother. Reflect on what the Constable for the police service said; “We’re talking about an infant. This is somebody that was born and discarded and has no chance of leading a fulfilling life.”

A question; does getting rid of a baby for whatever reason make sense?

While I don’t know your responses, I want you to remember that when Hitler and the Nazi’s were in power in Germany, they murdered from 15,003,000 to 31,595,000 people, most likely 20,946,000 men, women, handicapped, aged, sick, prisoners of war, forced laborers, camp inmates, critics, homosexuals, Jews, Slavs, Serbs, Germans, Czechs, Italians, Poles, French, Ukrainians, and many others. Among them 1,000,000 were children under eighteen years of age.

Another example occurred during Stalin’s reign in the Soviet Union.  Research has shown that 799,455 executions (1921–1953), around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag. Which was the government agency in charge of the Soviet network of forced labor camps. There were some 390,000 deaths during the forced resettlements, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons who were being deported during the 1940s, with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories. According to historians like Stephen Wheatcroft, approximately 1 million of these deaths were “purposive” while the rest happened through neglect and irresponsibility. The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million persons in the Soviet famine of 1932 to 1933 are sometimes included with the victims of Stalin.

What did the Nazi’s and Stalin have in common?

Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler were dictators. While Stalin promoted Marxism-Leninism, Hitler promoted Neo-Nazism, which was a form of fascism. Fascism employed direct force by the secret police, government intimidation, concentration camps, and murder. In Marxism-Leninism the state controlled the means of production, suppressed its opposition and paved the way for an eventual Communist society. From my perspective, I don’t see much of a difference. You may be wondering why I’ve even prepared this blog.

It is very simple; I truly believe that when a government passes laws to make it easier for people to be killed – it’s madness. In Canada right now it appears that there is an absolute focus on whether some people are worthy of living. It is obvious to me that the government focus is on getting rid of those that are not contributing enough to society. In the examples I’ve shown these people died because governments would not come to their aid or just promoted that only select people should live. With these types of laws:

• We’ve convinced people that by having some ailment they are being a detriment to society instead of helping them physically and mentally.
• We’ve positioned the poor against the rich.
• We’ve positioned the mother’s wishes over her new-born child’s life.
• We’ve placed the cost of helping a mother’s medical treatment over the love of a daughter for her mother’s health.

Does it make sense to pit (set as rivals) the healthy against the ill?

Does it make sense to pit the wealthy against the poor?

No matter what country you are in, we all need to become more resilient and stronger in opposing these types of laws that take us down the path to destruction of a civil society.

What could you do today that will move you to become more resilient against the divisions that are being forced into our lives?

Isn’t there only one race? Yes, the human race!

Don’t we need to work together to make sure that all of us of the human race flourish, instead of being thought of as liabilities?