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I post here with the stipulation that we do not engage in political answers but rather treat the below-stated basic premise and all the posts that follow within discussion of the nature of human behavior and /or personal beliefs AGAIN NOT POLITICAL BELIEFS PLEASE.

California recently enacted physician assisted suicide. It was said to be described as a "gentle death". In conflict with that statement we find opponents who believe capital punishment wrong and that the chemicals used to assist capital punish as "cruel and unusual punishment". Does a contradiction in thinking exist here? Are they both murder or not?

It appears that this nation is steeped in moral relativism and can't tell right from wrong any longer leading to everything being gray, hence anything goes. My father had a John Wayne mentality and choices were simply morally right or morally wrong. Was he wrong?

an inexhaustible number of examples of such contradictions,exist in our society and if you have an inclination to do so would like to hear from you concerning them and how you view the physician assisted suicide, capital punishment and the premise of moral relativism and perhaps comparing morality or the lack thereof in America over its history.

[gomoho]

Neither are murder - one is committed by the state, the other by the physician. Murder is the unlawful taking of another's life - these are both legal.

[SouthOfTheBorder]

Originally Posted by gomoho

Neither are murder - one is committed by the state, the other by the physician. Murder is the unlawful taking of another's life - these are both legal.

Well stated, Mr Wayne!

Don