Yuyutsu,

Such an 'agreement' is implicit when we vote: imagine all the possible exceptions that every person - and often his dog as well - could demand, on all manner of personal grounds to opt out of the state, if it were possible. The State has an obligation to protect you, and to protect me.

And it certainly has a duty to protect the frail, the ill and the mentally-impaired.

So a blanket right to be involved in someone else's death is not likely to be granted any time soon. Thank Christ for that.

Joe

What utter crap Loudmouth, the Government should not have any right to dictate to me on my end of life deciisions, it is my life not yours or any one else's, so you also believe it is ok to kill innocent people in war who have no say in their end of life choices, you like the religious right are hypocrites.

Loudmouth, would you want to be dehydrated to death over a week and a half? Because that's the "best" the current law allows.

Yes Ahame Tan let Loudmouth suffer excruciating pain and indignities when the time comes for his exit from this life, he will love every moment of it I am sure.

That's exactly why anti-choicers should be denied access to ALL analgesia under anti-hypocrisy legislation, ojnab.

Dear Joe,

<<So a blanket right to be involved in someone else's death is not likely to be granted any time soon. Thank Christ for that.>>

Indeed. That would be a very dark day when state gives people a blanket right to kill.

But I never asked for any rights. All I demand is that the state stops harassing such people who want nothing to do with it, including (but not limited to) if/when they wish to kill each other, as well as many other things which I do not personally approve.

Yes, this also includes the harassment of people who do not wish to vote. Even so, voting can also be undertaken, as I do, in attempt to mitigate the violence of the state rather than in agreement to have anything to do with it.

Yes, in the very least people should be able to opt out of the state. Indeed, to be clean and proper, membership in any organisation, including a state, should be voluntary and require an explicit opt-in.

Some little Napoleons may delude themselves that they and their state have a mission to protect everyone whether they want it or not. Some even claim they were assigned that mission by God, to run this world on His behalf, so to speak (something I never actually told them...) - the name for it is 'megalomania'.