Ben Shapiro talks about Canada's assisted suicide policy, why you should be able to kill yourself, and why it should be illegal to do so in the West. He also talks about why it's a good idea to have a financial safety net for your loved ones in case of an emergency, and what you should do in the event of one. The Ben Shapiro Show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. If you haven't gotten a VPN yet, get ExpressVPN right now at Express VPN. Slash Ben will get to all the news in just one moment, in which he will cover everything you need to know about what's going on with the economy, the stock market, and the economy's impact on the future of the world. You can also get a FREE life insurance quote from PolicyGenius, which starts at just $17 per month and covers up to 500 grand in coverage. That's right, you can get a life insurance policy that starts at $17 a month for 500 grand and includes full coverage in as little as a week. Click here to get a quote from a professional life insurance agent. See how much you could save on life insurance quotes from a company like Policygenius, and how much it could save you and your family. And, of course, he gives you a discount on your life insurance policies, too! Links From This Episode: 1. 2. Canada's Assisted Suicide Program 3. Why it's one of the most horrifying dystopian programs in modern history 4. A Pfizer executive makes a truly shocking admission 5. Is democracy at stake? 6. Is it illegal to commit suicide? 7. Why you should kill yourself? 8. Why killing yourself is a crime? 9. Should it be illegal? 10. Who should be allowed to dispose of your own body? 11. What does it matter? 12. What should you do with your own life? 13. What is democracy? 15. What s the point of assisted suicide in modern society? 16. What are you really getting out of it? 17. Who s at stake here? 14. Is there a right to die? And so on and so much freedom in modernity in the 21st century? 18. What do you have at stake in the world? 19. Does it matter if you're going to die in the process of choosing your own death?
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00:02:42.000See how much you could save. That's policygenius.com slash Shapiro. There's a story that has emerged in Canada over the course of the last several months, really over the course of the last year since 2021 in Canada. And it really speaks to the complete destruction of the Western ethic.
00:02:58.000It speaks to how a belief system about life and natural law and right and wrong has completely collapsed in the face of radical individualistic autonomy, the idea that you are free to dispose of your own body, your own life in any way that you see fit, or at least you should be, that the thing that makes you truly free is there being no boundaries, no restrictions on your activity whatsoever, not liberty or ordered liberty, but libertinism.
00:03:26.000You should be able to do whatever it is you want up to and including disposing of your own life.
00:03:31.000Now, it's always been controversial in the West as to whether there should be a law regarding suicide.
00:03:36.000Should it be illegal for you to commit suicide?
00:03:37.000Now, it seems like a silly question because obviously if you make it illegal, it's not like, well, you know, I'm killing myself and I'm really afraid of going to jail.
00:03:43.000But the idea is that society does have a stake in you preserving your life.
00:03:47.000Society should not be facilitating your death.
00:03:50.000And this particularly comes up in the realm of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
00:03:55.000In 2021, there's a Canadian law on assisted suicide that was passed and it contained a provision that would allow doctors to provide assisted suicide to the psychiatrically ill starting in 2022.
00:04:04.000This is according to City Journal circa 2022, May 23rd, 2022.
00:04:10.000In an article by Theodore Dalrymple, he says, Given that severe psychiatric disorder tends to cloud the judgment of those who suffer from it, one wonders who will benefit most from this law if passed.
00:04:17.000Certainly, it might remove from society people who are often difficult, unproductive, and expensive for others.
00:04:21.000They might be encouraged to shuffle off this moral coil as a service to their relatives, or even to their country.
00:04:26.000The distinction between the voluntary and the compulsory might become blurred.
00:04:29.000The law is a logical extension of the right to a dignified death procured by others, that is, a mode and time of death of the person's choosing with the aid of doctors and nurses.
00:04:36.000Originally, the right was conceded to those already dying.
00:04:39.000But why should the dying have all the best deaths?
00:04:40.000Either a man has a right to dispose of himself, or he doesn't.
00:04:43.000Whether he happens to be dying, as in a sense we all are anyway, is relevant.
00:04:46.000If a man has the right to kill himself, it's only humane to give him the opportunity to do so in comfort, surrounded by his loved ones, with soft music playing, free of the messy outcomes so often associated with unassisted suicide.
00:04:55.000This is sort of the ethos that you see in the old 1970s movie, Soylent Green.
00:05:00.000There's a famous scene where Edgar G. Robinson is brought into a death room and essentially they play Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and they show pictures of flowers in the background while they poison him to death.
00:05:11.000And it's supposed to be a horror scene.
00:05:13.000It is not supposed to be a beautiful death because we know what's going to happen with his body.
00:05:17.000We know that the state wants him dead.
00:05:18.000But again, what this comes down to, and this is a really deep question in sort of Western ethics really since the rise of the Enlightenment, is what are rights?
00:06:30.000Or is it good because you now have the ability to choose among a wide variety of good options?
00:06:35.000Does liberty make bad options good because you have the possibility of choosing them?
00:06:39.000And this is, as I say, a very broad enlightenment question.
00:06:42.000John Stuart Mill in On Liberty would probably argue that liberty has inherent value, that the ability to choose is what makes us human, and that is the thing that has actual real value.
00:06:52.000And then you have philosophers who are sort of more traditionally minded, and some who are actually not of the right, people like Joseph Raz, famous Israeli philosopher, who would suggest liberty does not have inherent value, liberty has instrumental value.
00:07:04.000In other words, liberty is designed to allow you to choose between mutually morally okay options.
00:07:11.000And liberty does not make a bad option good.
00:07:13.000And what Joseph Raz argues in his book about liberty is that if I am, if I'm forced to kill the person next to me, there's a threat to my child.
00:07:21.000And the idea is someone's going to shoot my child unless I shoot the guy next to me.
00:07:54.000Liberty is good because you can choose between a bunch of various options, all of which are decent or good.
00:07:59.000But the minute you can choose a really, really bad option, suddenly, liberty loses its value.
00:08:03.000In fact, liberty becomes morally blameworthy.
00:08:06.000You using liberty to do a bad thing makes you a worse person than you using liberty to do a good thing or you being under duress to do a bad thing.
00:08:13.000Okay, this all seems very abstract, but when it comes to assisted suicide, it becomes a lot less abstract.
00:08:17.000In other words, do you have the right to kill yourself?
00:08:20.000Do you have the right to have somebody else kill you?
00:08:23.000And so, in the liberty is of inherent value camp, the idea would be, sure, I mean, that is the core of who you are, the essence of what you are.
00:08:30.000This would be maybe the Isaiah Berlin ideal of liberty.
00:08:38.000And then, in the liberty is of instrumental value camp, you'd say, well, yes, but you choosing to die is a bad decision for you, for society, for everyone.
00:08:46.000And it says something about a society that allows people to choose to die, especially with the assistance of others.
00:08:53.000That society does not value human life.
00:08:55.000That is a society that does not see the preservation of human life as a chief value.
00:08:59.000And you're suddenly in a really ugly area where liberty is valued more highly than life.
00:09:05.000Now normally, you know, we are guaranteed in the United States life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:09:09.000And normally life and liberty aren't really seen as coming into conflict, because after all, who would choose to die, right?
00:09:14.000Life and liberty, if you have liberty, you choose to live, right?
00:09:17.000This is sort of the basic philosophical view of Thomas Hobbes, is that self-preservation is the main Motivation at the root of human behavior, but what happens when you believe that you should be able to dispose of your body should be able to do whatever you want at any time up to and including death and That comes into conflict with the value of life in a society.
00:09:35.000Well, the answer is what we're about to see in Canada now the truth is That in Canada, some of the assisted suicide restrictions that they have, they like to pretend that it's about individual autonomy.
00:09:46.000It's not totally about individual autonomy because there's still rules on assisted suicide in Canada.
00:09:51.000In other words, if you're a person who wants to have an assisted suicide, you're perfectly healthy, you're adjudicated as perfectly healthy, and you just want to kill yourself.
00:09:58.000You're just in a bad mood that day, or you've just had a marriage end, you've lost your job, you're just mildly depressed or seriously depressed, and you just want to kill yourself.
00:10:09.000In Canada, presumably the answer would be no.
00:10:11.000You actually have to have a doctor's note, which means that it's really not about autonomy because the society is still deciding when you can and cannot kill yourself, and there's still restrictions as to what age and under what conditions.
00:10:21.000So even in Canada, they like to pretend that radical liberty Is the solution.
00:10:26.000Liberty is of inherent value, not instrumental value.
00:10:46.000So the slogan of radical individual autonomy up to and including assisted suicide, that's not correct either.
00:10:52.000It's just that Canada has decided certain lives are not worth living.
00:10:55.000Canada has agreed that certain conditions make it okay within the realm of moral decisions to kill yourself.
00:11:02.000And we're not talking about just restricted to a woman who has terminal cancer, and she's gonna die in two weeks in excruciating pain, or she's going to be euthanized by a doctor.
00:11:12.000The reality, by the way, is that in most situations in which you have a terminal cancer patient in excruciating pain, they end up being opiated into death, generally speaking anyway.
00:11:22.000I know this is very harsh language, but it happens to be the reality.
00:11:24.000If you bring a relative into the hospital, and the relative is in severe excruciating pain, doctors will give that patient incredibly high doses of opiates.
00:11:34.000And that, you know, in most moral systems, is basically allowed because it's the doctrine of dual effect.
00:11:41.000You're not trying to kill the patient, you're trying to alleviate the pain.
00:11:42.000And if that ends up in the process, shortening the life of the patient, that just is what it is.
00:11:48.000Okay, but put that aside There's certain circumstances where obviously there's a very sympathetic case that can be made for the idea that people Want to want to die because they're gonna die in three days anyway And they're an excruciating pain and people die in very ugly ways death is a very very ugly thing particularly from medical causes As opposed to you know sort of suddenly I mean like gradual medical causes opposed to suddenly but what Canada is doing is something different they're now broadening the scope of how Suicide should apply.
00:12:14.000And this is really dangerous stuff because this is Western society deciding that life under most circumstances is not worth living.
00:12:20.000That there are just too many circumstances in which it's okay for people to take their own lives.
00:12:23.000In fact, it's morally praiseworthy for society to encourage the taking of life.
00:12:27.000And this results in what is a horrifying dystopian story straight out of Soylent Green by Rupa Subramanya over at Barry Weiss's Substack over at Common Sense.
00:12:40.000On September 7th, Margaret Marcilla called Joshua Tepper, the doctor who planned to kill her son.
00:12:45.000She lives outside Toronto with her husband and daughter, a nursing student.
00:12:48.000She had known that her 23-year-old son, Keanu Vithayan, was depressed.
00:12:52.000He was diabetic, he had lost vision in one eye, he didn't have a job or girlfriend or much of a future, and Marcilla asked her daughter to log on to Keanu's account.
00:12:58.000Keanu had given his sister access so she could help him with his email.
00:13:01.000He never shared anything with his mother, what he was thinking, where he was going, and Marcilla was scared.
00:13:05.000That was when Marcel learned that Keanu had applied and in late July been approved for Medical Assistance in Dying, aka MADE, aka Assisted Suicide.
00:13:12.000His death was scheduled for September 22nd.
00:13:14.000In a September 7th email from Tepper, the doctor, to Keanu and Tecla Hendrickson, the executive director of Maid House, a Toronto facility where Keanu's death would take place, Tepper mapped out the schedule.
00:13:39.000Then, a neuromuscular blocker that would stop Keanu's breathing.
00:13:41.000He would be dead in five to ten minutes.
00:13:43.000Apparently, Keanu wanted to bring a dog with him.
00:13:45.000In an email to him that same day, Hendrickson said, quote, Dogs are welcome in this space as long as there is someone there who will be responsible for them during the time it made house.
00:14:05.000He smoked a ton of weed, which by the way, again, this is sort of a side note in the piece, but to pretend that weed addiction has nothing to do with depression or suicidal ideation is really silly and contra the data.
00:14:15.000He'd lived with his dad, then with his mom, and now with her sister, Keanu's aunt.
00:14:20.000Whoever he went, whatever he did, he was unhappy.
00:14:21.000Going blind in his left eye this past April was the tipping point.
00:14:25.000The day after she discovered the email Marcella called Tepper.
00:14:29.000She called herself Joanne and said, quote, she wanted to go through the whole process in general from A to Z before the Christmas holidays, if you know what I mean.
00:14:48.000Because the truth is, most people under a doctor's care, most people go to a psychologist or a psychiatrist, have periods in which they believe that the care they are receiving is not acceptable to them.
00:15:01.000The notion that you are constantly and consistently feeling success with your psychiatrist or psychologist is just not true.
00:15:08.000Very often people go through spates where they feel like things are working and they go through areas where they feel like things are not working.
00:15:13.000So it's very easy to fulfill that standard.
00:15:15.000Suffering that cannot be remediated or treated in some way that's acceptable to you.
00:15:19.000In fact, one of the signs of depression, when you see people who are depressed, is they feel stuck.
00:15:23.000They feel as though they're stuck in time.
00:15:24.000That that moment is going to last forever.
00:15:29.000So, depression and suicidal ideation being very linked.
00:15:32.000Again, not very hard to basically walk into any of these clinics in Canada and just say, my suffering can't be remediated or treated in a way that's acceptable to me.
00:15:40.000I'm stuck right here, right now in my depression.
00:15:42.000Marcila, who recorded the conversation and shared the five and a half minute recording with Common Sense, told Tepper she was diabetic and blind, more or less her son's condition.
00:15:49.000Tepper said he'd had a lot of patients similar to you.
00:15:51.000Then the doctor said, quote, if you wanted, I could do a formal assessment with you.
00:16:02.000She had just over two weeks to stop her son from dying.
00:16:06.000Says this columnist for Barry Weiss's Substack, When we think of assisted suicide or euthanasia, we imagine a limited number of elderly people with late-stage cancer or advanced ALS and severe pain.
00:16:16.000The argument for helping them die is clear.
00:16:19.000In 2015, Canada's Supreme Court ruled that assisted suicide was constitutional.
00:16:24.000Now again, one of the things that happened in the United States is that euthanasia is legal in certain places in the United States.
00:16:32.000But the question as to whether there is a constitutional right to assisted suicide has never been adjudicated at the Supreme Court level, right?
00:16:39.000That you should strike down all bans on assisted suicide.
00:16:42.000In 2015, Canada's Supreme Court ruled assisted suicide was constitutional.
00:16:45.000In June 2016, Parliament passed Bill C-14, otherwise known as the Medical Assistance in Dying Act, made was now the law of the land.
00:16:51.000Anyone who could show their death was reasonably foreseeable.
00:16:54.000By the way, everyone's death is reasonably foreseeable, is it not?
00:16:57.000That's literally the predicate to every life insurance ad we do on this program.
00:17:12.000In 2017, the first full year in which MAID, which is administered by provincial governments, was in operation, 2,838 people opted for assisted suicide, according to a government report.
00:17:21.000By 2021, within four years, the figure had jumped to 10,064.
00:17:24.000That accounted for more than 3% of all death in Canada the entire year.
00:17:48.000103, in 2020 118, and in 2021 139. Today thousands of people who have lived for many years are applying successfully to kill themselves. Indeed, in some Canadian provinces, nearly 5% of all deaths are assisted suicide. In 2021, the province of Quebec reported that 4.7% of deaths in the province were due to maid.
00:18:07.000In British Columbia, the number was 4.8%.
00:18:08.000Progressive Vancouver Island is unofficially known as the assisted death capital of the world, according to doctors.
00:18:15.000Well, over the past few years, doctors have taken an increasingly liberal view when it comes to defining reasonably foreseeable death.
00:18:21.000Then last year, the government amended the original legislation stating that one could apply for this program even if one's death were not reasonably foreseeable.
00:18:29.000The second track of applicants simply had to show they had a condition that was intolerable to them and could not be relieved under conditions they consider acceptable.
00:18:36.000In 2023, the numbers are almost certain to rise.
00:18:38.000Next March, the government is scheduled to expand the pool of eligible suicide seekers to include the mentally ill and mature minors.
00:18:57.000And mentally ill people are not capable of making good decisions for themselves, which is generally why they have people around them who care for them, who try to help them.
00:19:05.000And you're talking about mature minors, you're talking about 16, 17-year-old kids who, by the way, are going to be plagued by mental health issues because a lot of teen suicidal ideation and depression is linked to age, it is linked to that age where you have hormones racing through, you don't know what to do with them, you don't have social structures around you, you have a broken family structure.
00:19:23.000You have mental issues that are just starting to crop up.
00:19:26.000And the solution in Canada, apparently, is to make suicide available.
00:19:28.000According to Canada's Department of Justice, parents are generally entitled to make treatment decisions on their children's behalf.
00:19:33.000The Mature Minor Doctrine, however, allows children deemed sufficiently mature to make their own treatment decisions.
00:19:39.000The federal government does not define mature.
00:19:41.000It does not specify who determines whether one is mature.
00:19:43.000It's not like you have to go to a court and a court says, oh, you're a mature minor.
00:19:48.000The doctrine also varies from one province to another.
00:19:51.000Dr. Dawn Davies, a palliative care physician who supported MADE when it was first conceived, said she had tons of worries about where this might lead.
00:19:56.000By the way, if you're talking about the worries about profitability, that's a very real worry.
00:20:00.000If you're a doctor who makes their living doing assisted suicides, well, what are you going to do?
00:20:03.000You're going to broaden the spectrum of available conditions that allow for assisted suicide.
00:20:10.000Pretty clearly, it can make you a living killing kids.
00:20:12.000Then a 17-year-old comes to you and says, listen, I'm a mature minor.
00:20:18.000If that's how you make your money, capitalism does not discriminate between good economic behavior, morally speaking, and bad economic behavior, morally speaking.
00:20:25.000Capitalism will sell you pornography and it will sell you votive candles.
00:20:29.000And that happens to be the case if you are selling death, which is why assisted suicide is a very different thing even than euthanasia, the sort of right to commit suicide under medical care.
00:20:38.000Assisted suicide is actually a step beyond that.
00:20:41.000Dr. Non-Davies could imagine kids with personality disorders or other mental health issues saying they wanted to die.
00:20:46.000Some of them will mean it, some of them won't.
00:20:47.000We won't necessarily be able to discern who is who.
00:20:51.000According to this article in Common Sense, Barry Weiss' Substack, Hugh Sher, an attorney advising Margaret Marcella, told me, quote, while other countries have explored extending assisted suicide of minors, those governments have insisted on substantial safeguards, including parental notification and consent.
00:21:07.000By the way, like, if you're a parent and you consent to your 17-year-old committing suicide, who's to say that you're a good- Like, no one should be able to consent to anyone else's death, and the reality is, you should not be able to consent in your own death, barring certain extraordinary circumstances and, realistically speaking, From a pure pro-life point of view, you should not be able to consent in your own death other than if you are talking about the kind of palliative care that we see routinely in hospitals that are designed to minimize pain, not to cause death.
00:21:34.000We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:24:01.000But, says this attorney, quote, Canada is poised to become the most permissive euthanasia regime in the world, including for minors and people with only psychiatric illness, already having removed the foreseeability of death or terminal illness as an essential condition to access euthanasia or assisted suicide.
00:24:15.000Dr. Ellen Warner is an oncologist at the prominent Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, a professor at University of Toronto's Medical School, quote, My objection to MAID from day one was that there is no way we would be able to avoid this slippery slope.
00:24:42.000His doctor's like, well, what if I want to do harm?
00:24:44.000MAID is about relieving suffering, respecting human dignity.
00:24:46.000Again, respecting human dignity does not mean respecting your ability to kill yourself.
00:24:51.000That is the opposite of human dignity.
00:24:53.000We have redefined dignity in dying to mean that death should be less ugly for you and for the people around you.
00:24:59.000But who is to say, honestly, on a moral level, who is to say that it is quote-unquote more dignified to go while being slowly poisoned by a doctor than it is to wait until the very last minute And die in an ugly way in order to demonstrate to friends and family and to everybody around you that life is so valuable that you should not shorten it.
00:25:20.000You know, I'm not condemning people who choose to make what has to be, you know, not just a life-altering decision, but a life-ending decision because they're in horrible pain.
00:25:29.000I'm not blaming people for feeling that way.
00:25:31.000What I am saying is that society's standard for what constitutes death with dignity is really incorrect.
00:25:38.000The society's standard of what death with dignity would constitute should be the attempt to preserve life because life is just that valuable and a society that starts to demean life in favor of quote-unquote dignity gets into really ugly territory really quickly because then the question becomes what does a dignified life look like?
00:25:54.000Right, if you get to declare that, as a society, death with dignity is being slowly poisoned by a doctor a week before you're going to die anyway, or, as Canada is saying, that death with dignity involves, you have a depressed teenager and the teenager decides to, death with dignity, decides to kill himself with the use of a doctor as opposed to taking sleeping pills, or instead of going to a psychiatrist for a prolonged period of time and slowly fading away, if you're a society and you decide to do that, that raises the question, what does dignified life look like?
00:26:19.000Because what if, a huge number of people, I'm talking people who are mentally disabled.
00:26:24.000I'm talking people who are mentally ill.
00:26:28.000Who's to decide whether those lives are worth living?
00:26:31.000Now, we say that it's the person's own decision, but when you're talking about mentally ill people, it isn't their decision because mental illness robs you of your faculties.
00:26:38.000It robs you of the ability to make good, informed decisions.
00:26:41.000That is why we call people mentally ill, because they're incapable of making decisions that are rational for themselves.
00:26:47.000But according to this doctor, quote, assisted suicide had been happening for ages.
00:26:50.000Before May, patients who were going to die were assisted along the way with high doses of narcotics.
00:26:53.000The rationale was to, quote, unquote, make people comfortable.
00:26:56.000But again, when we say make people comfortable, we mean to alleviate pain, not to kill them.
00:27:00.000Many of the people thinking about killing themselves in Canada are relieved the government has made it easier to die.
00:27:15.000The made curious were lonely and scared.
00:27:16.000They'd coalesced into a growing online community, mostly on Twitter and Facebook, and through the spread of death cafes.
00:27:22.000There are more than 1,300 death cafes in Canada and 14,000 worldwide.
00:27:27.000In the beginning, in 2012 or 2013, people mostly met in other people's homes to talk about the emotional and philosophical complexities of death.
00:27:35.000Since then, the number of virtual cafes had grown considerably.
00:27:38.000There was also an expanding constellation of end-of-life doctors and death doulas.
00:27:41.000Kerry Sawatzky, a death doula at Madehouse, where Keanu Vethan was scheduled to die, is described on the Madehouse website as believing that end-of-life planning leads to a meaningful and transformational experience.
00:27:52.000That's one way of putting it when you're dead.
00:28:19.000Is this what society is saying about life?
00:28:22.000That certain lives are just not worth living?
00:28:24.000It has not been lost on government officials Maid could save them a good bit of money.
00:28:27.000In October 2020, the Office of Parliamentary Budget Office issued a report stating Maid would cut healthcare costs by over $66 million.
00:28:35.000In 2017, Aaron Trachtenberg, research fellow and doctor at the University of Manitoba in Brands and Hymans, a health economist and nephrologist at the University of Calgary, published a paper predicting Maid could slash healthcare costs by as much as $100 million yearly.
00:28:49.000Dr. Ramona Koelho, a family physician in a suburb of Toronto, said, I do worry MAID is an easy solution to bed shortages and a terrible lack of resources patients are facing.
00:28:57.000Koelho's comments jived with a 2021 letter from three UN officials to the Canadian government about MAID having a, quote, potentially discriminatory impact on persons with disabilities and older people who are not at the end of their life or nearing death from natural causes.
00:29:09.000The letter said there is a real risk that those who may be further marginalized by their racialized, indigenous gender identity or other status will be more vulnerable to being induced to access MAID.
00:29:19.000On September 8th, the day after Margaret Marcilla called Joshua Tepper, she took to Facebook to post about her son.
00:30:21.000He was arrested for assaulting his father and another time for indecent exposure, which he blamed on some hallucinogenic drugs he had been microdosing.
00:30:29.000My thoughts are I would be closer to God, he said.
00:30:30.000He was doing this, he declared, for himself and for his family.
00:30:32.000Keanu told me he was baffled by everything that had happened the past three weeks.
00:30:35.000His mother's social media campaign, Tepper's decision not to help him die.
00:30:53.000You are adding to my pain and suffering and for that I curse you.
00:30:56.000I love you and I want to talk to you, Marcello wrote.
00:30:58.000After a moment he texted back, you know what I need.
00:31:00.000These are people who are not capable of making decisions for themselves and the government approving all of this is a massive Act, suggesting what they believe of human life more generally, and then you wonder why Western cultures seem to be dying?
00:31:15.000Maybe the answer is that they have decided that life is not actually of top priority, not just on an individual level, but for society at large.
00:31:23.000That what liberty boils down to is not liberty to make good decisions within the boundaries of institutions, but eviscerating all institutions and all values in pursuit of atomistic individualism.
00:31:33.000And if the government can facilitate that, that's really what the government is there to do.
00:31:36.000The government is there just to facilitate your atomistic individual decision making, no matter how counterproductive or how bad.
00:31:43.000And even if the government is going to engage in the evil of promoting death for people who can't take care of themselves, I guess that that's just the cost of liberty.
00:31:50.000Really, really horrifying stuff up in Canada and everything that starts in Canada unfortunately ends in the United States and is promulgated worldwide as well.
00:31:59.000The euthanasia statistics in places like the Netherlands are fascinating.
00:32:03.000What they show is that euthanasia is obviously highly tied to societal values.
00:32:08.000According to BMJ, which is a medical journal, there's an unexplained sevenfold variation in euthanasia rates across the Netherlands.
00:32:17.000And so what you would expect is that if a government had a widespread euthanasia policy or an assisted suicide policy, and all that were happening is that people who really wanted to die were being allowed to die, that that would be the deciding factor, what you would expect is a certain level of consistency across major cities.
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