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Wowsa! Youse guys aren't all a bunch of crypto-fascists after all. There's hope for this forum yet.
Well... he can choose to accept it? *chuckle*Woah... well, as long as the senior citizen *CHOOSES* the death, and isn't regulated to be killed.
What is it with you and bringing up Hitler?That's exactly what Hitler believed. Anyways, who then judges those fit and unfit for life?
I've already stolen it from him several times over, and I'll attempt to snatch it one more time.Goodwin wins. This thread belongs to goodwin.
GODWIN, not "Goodwin.":razz:Goodwin wins. This thread belongs to goodwin.
GODWIN, not "Goodwin.":razz:
Childishly, its proponents always asssume that they will be holding the gun barrel and not staring down it.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
I assume you know who said it, and I also assume you know what he accomplished.
What he accomplished was that he killed more of his own people than any other leader ever. But still he isn't considered as bad as Hitler or Stalin.
i find that this is even being discussed rather sad and somewhat horrific
so in essence yoru saying the only point of my living to contribute to other peoples lives and once im done being a slave to society i should be stripped of a lifetime of hard work and summarily exicuted
if this was the case why bother EVER working hard
why not simply do teh BARE minimum to get by since it has no meaning it eh long run as it will all be taken from me and ill never get to enjoy it
this kind of of closed minded thinking will only lead to a complte breakdown of society and the utter stagnation of any further progress or advancement int he world as there will no longer be a point to trying any harder than you have to or ever doing anything more than the absuloute basics to get by and live compfortably
This thread is mostly puerile (not you TJT). Join up the thinking:
Most of us know or care about at least one senior citizen (parent, grandparent etc) and would not want them murdered or to be murdered themselves some years later. Those working with the elderly or selling services to them would not want to lose their livelihoods either. There would be no popular majority, so you would first need a dictatorship of some sort to implement euthanasia.
Ageing people are not vegetables and would not stick around to be gassed. All your victims and most of your future targets would leave your sorry country and take their wealth with them. So you would have to close your borders to human & financial traffic. Your economy would pretty much go down the tube once all the banks and financial institutions had disinvested in you (remember, pension funds are pretty much the bedrock of their business) and people realised there would be no point in saving for old age. Health workers, insurers, fund managers, advertisers, social carers, travel companies, airline employees etc (the list is huge) would have no jobs without an elderly market and they would form a huge unemployed and discontented constituency. So you would need more police, but without money to pay them they would probably rely mostly on corruption and bribery. People would lose or falsify their identities to escape selection. Someone who is due to be gassed would likely be a lot more resourceful than your underpaid police. Everyone would have to carry papers and be subjected to constant checks, raids and roadblocks. It would be a little like North Korea, but without the perks and privileges.
Eventually an external power with an eye on your economic potential, or maybe just annoyed at the refugees flooding in, would kick the door in and your sorry set-up would collapse just like the Khmer Rouge did when Vietnam intervened. You would be most likely hanged by a mob and the people would cheer.
What I've understood, work like a dog for 50 years, stay retired for 5 years, and after you get mercy killed? Bull