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   Message 61,164 of 62,757   
   Tom to Stop the Bullshit Campaign   
   Re: Should America Euthanize the Old Peo   
   03 Feb 11 10:05:06   
   
   d33c28ca   
   XPost: alt.autos.toyota, rec.autos.driving, alt.society.liberalism   
   XPost: alt.fan.michael-moore   
   From: tc@comcast.net   
      
   On 2/3/11 8:49 AM, His Highness the TibetanMonkey, originator of the   
   Stop the Bullshit Campaign wrote:   
   > On Feb 3, 1:30 am, Google Member 32123332   
   >   wrote:   
   >> I'm a poor person, and I am very concerned that I may become   
   >> homeless.  I don't blame Obama or Bush, but nature: the amount of   
   >> resources in not keeping up with population growth.  When this happens   
   >> in the animal kingdom, we see massive die-offs by the dozens of   
   >> millions, but no one cares because they are animals.  But, this is now   
   >> going to happen with humans, and I don't believe we should just have   
   >> dozens of millions of American die-offs on the streets.  Since those   
   >> that have jobs view the homeless with disgust and hatred, I suggest an   
   >> option: government subsidized free voluntary euthanization clinics.   
   >> If I become homeless, I will suffer and die a slow and painful death   
   >> on the streets.  I would rather just check into a  euthanization   
   >> clinic and be injected with lethal substances: it's like when I went   
   >> under general anesthesia to have my wisdom teeth removed: it was   
   >> euphoric.  But in this case, we just don't wake up.   
   >>   
   >> To those with jobs, I understand that you feel disgust and hatred   
   >> towards the homeless: the United States has a capitalist social   
   >> Darwinist economic system (survival of the fittest).  So, a good   
   >> compromise is for voters with jobs to support free voluntary   
   >> euthanization clinics, and in return, you will not have to be around   
   >> us, the homeless/prospective homeless, who lower the quality of your   
   >> life by invading your space and causing you to experience our   
   >> biological filth.  Just give us a way to permanently remove ourselves   
   >> from existance.  Afterall, you yourself may very well become homeless   
   >> in a few months as nature attempts to create a balance between   
   >> resources and the human population count; you yourself may have to get   
   >> services at a euthanization clinic.   
   >>   
   >> Another thing to consider is that there will be no more social   
   >> security left by around 2030, so we will have, on top of the dozens of   
   >> millions of jobless Americans dying off on the streets, another 50   
   >> million or so senior citizens dying off on the streets.  So, it would   
   >> be a lot more humane to have these free euthanization clinics so that   
   >> these senior citizens could at least have the option to die   
   >> painlessly.   
   >>   
   >> Let's be realistic: those with jobs will never support paying enough   
   >> taxes to provide for the livelihood of around 100 million homeless   
   >> Americans, so the only option is to pay enough taxes to provide free   
   >> euthanization clinics: it is much much cheaper in the long run, and   
   >> very humane.   
   >>   
   >> It would be nice if humans could invent food/clothes/medicine   
   >> replicators like the ones in "Star Trek: The Nex Generation."  Every   
   >> homeless person could be taken care of for almost nothing: you just   
   >> insert dirt or rocks or any matter into the replicator, and the   
   >> machine separates the matter into individual protons, and then builds   
   >> food/clothes/medicine by combining protons to the specific molecular   
   >> structures of the items.  But alas, such technologies are centuries   
   >> away, and we would have business interests opposed to products being   
   >> so cheaply created for poor people.   
   >   
   > You've convinced me for sure. I don't know what the Christians have to   
   > say on this issue, though, since they have been a little inconsistent.   
   > For example, they want you to be born, but then deny you healthcare   
   > and other things that can give you quality of life. Then they don't   
   > want you die either, at least not out of your own choice.   
   >   
   > But if you are a homeless person you can go to a church and get some   
   > charity. They'll smile at you and tell you about the 'afterlife.' Then   
   > they'll feel good about themselves and go shopping for more stuff,   
   > some of which may eventually trickle down to you.   
   >   
   > You just got to look at the bright side of life. Look at it with a   
   > sense of humor...   
   >   
   > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0nT83MfWc4   
   >   
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   > "Life may stink but there's hope"   
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   Does your position at the T shirt factory offer mental health care   
   you should take advantage of it.   
      
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