A poorer generation that fought wars is coming to the foreground. Culture wars losing ground to class politics, pizzagate and LGBT+ sidelined by pocketbook issues. A momentum building against austerity and the wealth divide, also this heatwave is making people think about climate change as a bread and butter issue.
Snowflake-ism and everything is OK- social anarchy... The minority ruling the majority... Lack of social consciousness... But probably the biggest issue will turn out be putting a fee on CS...
Cape Town, before some fortuitous rain, was going to be the first major city in the world to run dry, just a few months ago. Who would have thought that Ireland would be on water restrictions?
We're all going to have to manage a very precious resouce a whole lot better.
Nov 14, 2018 4:51 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
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I hope euthanasia becomes an important topic, I watched a documentary from the Netherlands about it, I hope we can move forward on our laws here they way they have.
Nov 14, 2018 4:52 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 Posts
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 posts
marlindap: I hope euthanasia becomes an important topic, I watched a documentary from the Netherlands about it, I hope we can move forward on our laws here they way they have.
Nov 14, 2018 5:00 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 Posts
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 posts
marlindap: murder is taking the soul away from someone who does not want to die, anyone in the army is guilty of that.
Ah OK, so people who join the army are murderers?
But people who persuade dear old Aunt Jane to consent to "a peaceful and dignified death" so they can get their hands on her money are just good and caring citizens?
Nov 14, 2018 5:05 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
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i guess you have not watched videos on this, it takes a long time for it to be decided, it is not just done because the person requests it. They do not euthanize healthy people mostly it is for the terminally ill. I have ot question your human compassion if you can watch people suffer in pain.
Nov 14, 2018 5:08 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 Posts
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 posts
marlindap: i guess you have not watched videos on this, it takes a long time for it to be decided, it is not just done because the person requests it. They do not euthanize healthy people mostly it is for the terminally ill. I have ot question your human compassion if you can watch people suffer in pain.
I have no doubt that you mean well.
But remember what they say about the road to hell......
In Belgium and the Netherlands, voluntary euthanasia has now given way to the involuntary killing of babies and infants.....
The Slippery Slope is not a figment of the imagination......
Nov 14, 2018 5:31 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
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no i am not, yes they would be assisting them, but it should be the choice of that person and only that person, if it is the choice of another person it is murder.
Nov 14, 2018 5:35 PM CST Which social issue is going to be the hottest in 2018?
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 Posts
charles_nzChristchurch, Canterbury New Zealand1,386 posts
marlindap: no i am not, yes they would be assisting them, but it should be the choice of that person and only that person, if it is the choice of another person it is murder.
Am glad you share my disgust at the murder of toddlers in Holland and Belgium then.
Let us be frank. The number of people who genuinely want to die, but are physically incapable of killing themselves (and therefore "need" someone to do it for them) is microscopic. Negligible. To be "humane" to these people you want to open the floodgates to old ladies being pressured to die, to children being killed without their consent, to a culture in which young people are given the message "if life sucks, just die, you'll be happier".
Things have consequences, and the issue is not quite as simple as you seem to think.
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