Greetings again! Since the DH is DEAD and all the COOL discussion goes down here in the PG, I figured I'd make another little topic, introducing y'all to a pet project of mine and perhaps starting a movement.
In its simplest form, the thread can be boiled down to:
Should we (America, although you can debate about other countries/the world if you want to) begin to euthanize old people?
Now, this is not a moral debate. I don't believe in morality, and I hope that some of you have been convinced by my most recent thread to adopt a similar stance, and are currently hiding it (good move, if so). The mass murder of senior citizens is probably morally indefensible, but we're looking out for our own interests, and the "pros" come out like this-
- Our economic worries are gone. Social Security? Medicare? Remember when those mattered? Taxes could be lowered, the debt could be alleviated in a matter of years, the Government could buy everyone brand-new Hori Minipads for their birthdays. Seniors are leeches on society; they get out far, far more than they put in, and with respect to the Baby Boomers, they're getting more out of it than they ever put in.
- We wouldn't have to deal with old people anymore. They are disgusting, weak, repulsive, and from a time so far removed that we can't relate to them.
The "cons"
- We ourselves will one day become old, and we don't want to die sooner than we have to.
- Some of you may still be holding on to human emotions such as love, and therefore may have loved ones (grandparents, or, for the elderly among us, parents) who will be wiped out in this purge.
Both of those cons, however, are easily put to rest. Do you love grandma? Go spend some time with her. You will hate her and her drooling, tapioca-covered, horrifying infirmity before long. You don't want to die? That's why this is a one-time thing; we defend ourselves from the scourge of future generations by properly and strictly indoctrinating them into a moral system of our own creation- our own forefathers' mistake was to give us too much leash. Now they reap the whirlwind.
The final problem, you will say, is that it can't be done. I think, however, that if we spend some time fabricating moral arguments for euthanasia, we could swing public opinion in our favor over the course of ten years or so. You can convince people to legalize anything if it's convenient for them- just look at abortion. If people are willing to kill adorable little baby-things, why wouldn't they kill the pustuled monstrositys of ages past?
This thread is for discussing specific moral arguments we could come up with to support this convenient stance, as well as discussion on problems or sticky points in my idea, and specifics (age cut-off, duration of purges, how to convince the geezers to go quietly, who to spare, how to kill 'em). Of course, when we're done, we'll have to delete the thread and never speak of this to anyone else.
In its simplest form, the thread can be boiled down to:
Should we (America, although you can debate about other countries/the world if you want to) begin to euthanize old people?
Now, this is not a moral debate. I don't believe in morality, and I hope that some of you have been convinced by my most recent thread to adopt a similar stance, and are currently hiding it (good move, if so). The mass murder of senior citizens is probably morally indefensible, but we're looking out for our own interests, and the "pros" come out like this-
- Our economic worries are gone. Social Security? Medicare? Remember when those mattered? Taxes could be lowered, the debt could be alleviated in a matter of years, the Government could buy everyone brand-new Hori Minipads for their birthdays. Seniors are leeches on society; they get out far, far more than they put in, and with respect to the Baby Boomers, they're getting more out of it than they ever put in.
- We wouldn't have to deal with old people anymore. They are disgusting, weak, repulsive, and from a time so far removed that we can't relate to them.
The "cons"
- We ourselves will one day become old, and we don't want to die sooner than we have to.
- Some of you may still be holding on to human emotions such as love, and therefore may have loved ones (grandparents, or, for the elderly among us, parents) who will be wiped out in this purge.
Both of those cons, however, are easily put to rest. Do you love grandma? Go spend some time with her. You will hate her and her drooling, tapioca-covered, horrifying infirmity before long. You don't want to die? That's why this is a one-time thing; we defend ourselves from the scourge of future generations by properly and strictly indoctrinating them into a moral system of our own creation- our own forefathers' mistake was to give us too much leash. Now they reap the whirlwind.
The final problem, you will say, is that it can't be done. I think, however, that if we spend some time fabricating moral arguments for euthanasia, we could swing public opinion in our favor over the course of ten years or so. You can convince people to legalize anything if it's convenient for them- just look at abortion. If people are willing to kill adorable little baby-things, why wouldn't they kill the pustuled monstrositys of ages past?
This thread is for discussing specific moral arguments we could come up with to support this convenient stance, as well as discussion on problems or sticky points in my idea, and specifics (age cut-off, duration of purges, how to convince the geezers to go quietly, who to spare, how to kill 'em). Of course, when we're done, we'll have to delete the thread and never speak of this to anyone else.
