Response To A Sneering Progressive

Mail this out [CLICK RIGHT HERE] or mail the hyperlink to all your liberal and progressive friends while there's still time. (Can anyone get it onto the Kos or Usenet?) You may also want to include the link that precedes and prompts the tirade so they know what it's about. :)

Here's how it started: In response to the following article, Imagine Terri Were a Toaster ..., I had posted the following message:

Like all absurd arguments, it's based on an incorrect premise: that Terri Schiavo is a toaster that sentimental right-to-lifers are humanizing for their own delusional ends.

Perhaps I'd enjoy the wry humor in it on a different day, but you have to realize... [MORE]

It got the following reply:

Liberals for Terri? Your argument is absurd too.

What the author fails to realize is that if Terri has a soul, which is what most people believe, regardless if you're on Michael Shiavo's side or her parent's side - then there is something still there in the person's body whose wishes Michael wants to respect.

On the other hand - your argument is just ridiculous. This case has been in courts for so long, with experts declaring that she is a vegetable and all of her "reactions", movements, etc. are simply reflexes. This is science, not religion - and believe it or not, in science there are often things underneath what you can see just by using your senses. So it's great that you can see her react to certain stimuli and make noises like "AAAH WAAAAH" but that doesn't mean anything.

I sent this in reply. It's the link at the top of the article. It's basically a point-by-point refutation of the usual positions and a rant on the Liberals For Terri position in a nutshell.