tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11244887.post111629044025296856..comments2023-10-03T06:59:25.428-10:00Comments on The Joshua Victor Theory: Million Dollar Baby (Ethics Part 3)The Joshua Victor Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684296967627057287noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11244887.post-36459817311969787222008-10-22T21:52:00.000-10:002008-10-22T21:52:00.000-10:00More than 3 years after writing this, I find out t...More than 3 years after writing this, I find out that the idea of "euthanasia clinics" in the future was already depicted in the movie "Soylent Green" made back in the 70's. I guess its sort of an environmental protest/ sci-fi drama (not really worth seeing), but they had just what I described in the movie. Elderly people were lining up with their crutches and walkers, etc to be filed into their personal chamber. They lay down on a bed in a pleasant room with a big video screen which projected beautiful, soothing images of nature. All the while they listened to their choice of favorite music, basked in muted light of their favorite color, while slipping off in a painless death from drinking a poisoned cocktail. The attendants, eerily enough, wore what looked very much like vestments a pastor might wear in church--a white robe with something like a stole or sash. After the people died, their bed was moved on a tram out to a loading area, where all the bodies were dumped into big garbage trucks. Of course the sci-fi sinister conspiracy begins to unravel at that point, as Charleton Heston discovers that the bodies that are disposed of are recycled into processed food biscuits called Soylent Green. And in the futuristic, barren, overpopulated world, soylent is the main food source. "Soylent Green is people!!" is Heston's climactic line ;)<BR/><BR/>Of course that is far-fetched and a little wacky, but I couldn't help but think of how the whole Mad Cow disease thing got started. As I understand it, the cows had their diet supplemented with "rendered" cattle meat and bone. In other words, cattle were being forced to cannibalize. I don't know if they figured out if that was what caused it, or just how it spread. But anyhow, there's obviously something wrong with eating your own kind, cow or human. Gross.The Joshua Victor Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684296967627057287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11244887.post-1116385137457755572005-05-17T16:58:00.000-10:002005-05-17T16:58:00.000-10:00Stuart, I totally agree about suffering being a pa...Stuart, I totally agree about suffering being a part of the Christian life. But like typical theologians of glory, it seems that the message of Today is that all suffering is evil and to be avoided. I checked out the LCMS link about suicide, and am not sure I get your drift. The Q & A seemed pretty normal to me. Please elaborate.<BR/><BR/>Jester, <BR/>you really hit on it here: "It is easier for man to decree a life unworth living then face the fact that a person, like them, is being killed." That's really what its all about. In order to soothe our consciences and hide the fact that what we are actually doing is KILLING someone, we first have to 'decree their life unworth living.' Then, its not murder, its compassion! So you see how its distorted. Thanks for that thought. It really encapsulates what I was getting at.The Joshua Victor Theoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684296967627057287noreply@blogger.com