Euthanasia

First off, welcome audience to the third round of the debate. If you've read it all thanks so much!!! Back to business. ==Notes== My opponent's sources are "afterall.net" and "google.com". Afterall seems like a blog on varying subjects with no real credibility and google.com is a search engine....which, if you follow my link to google.com has no information on euthanasia (click link). http://www.google.com... More importantly, it seems my opponent has plagarized her whole argument from a debatapedia article (http://debatepedia.idebate.org...). Please note this in voting. ===Refutations=== "I see my opponent doesn't cut the new fish any slack...." Sorry "Laws against euthanasia and assisted suicide are in place to prevent abuse and to protect people from unscrupulous doctors and others. They are not, and never have been, intended to make anyone suffer." Medicines to help osteoperosis are not, and never have been, intended to cause suicidal thoughts, stroke, and death. Just because it wasn't intended to do something doesnt mean that it's innocent of all accusations. "Savings to governments could become a consideration. Drugs for assisted suicide cost about $35 to $45, making them far less expensive than providing medical care. This could fill the void from cutbacks for treatment and care with the 'treatment' of death." The ammount of money saved from not keeping this people suffering is tremendous and widely outweighs the cost of the drug. "While our society aspires to eradicate discrimination and the most punishing effects of poverty in employment practices, housing, education, and law enforcement, we consistently fall short of our goals. The costs of this failure with assisted suicide and euthanasia would be extreme." Please explain in your own words how euthanasia will discriminate against minorities. "We call on Catholics, and on all persons of good will, to reject proposals to legalize euthanasia" First off, I realize this statement is plagarized but at least read what you paste. Secondly, asking a certain religious group to vote for something because they have "good will" is discriminating against other sects, RIGHT what you were complaining about 2 quotations above. "When we reviewed the five conditions for a successful program of living wills, we encountered evidence that not one condition has been achieved or, we think, can be." "We think"? Premierly, who's we? Secondly, we think is an opinion. "First, despite the millions of dollars lavished on propaganda, most people do not have living wills" With euthanasia legalization, this will change. "Second, people who sign living wills have generally not thought through its instructions in a way we should want for life-and-death decisions" Same As Above. "Third, drafters of living wills have failed to offer people the means to articulate their preferences accurately" Same as two above. "Fourth, living wills too often do not reach the people actually making decisions for incompetent patients... Fifth, living wills seem not to increase the accuracy with which surrogates identify patients' preferences." All this will change, people will be forced to change their ways if the need arises. If euthanasia is legalized it will be needed that people change. ===Conclusion=== Con has failed to provide any legitimate source. Con has failed to refute any of my points or refutations. Con has plagarized an entire round's worth of contentions. --==VOTING_GUIDE==-- Conduct: Pro: Con has plagarized a whole round of information, mostly from a biased writer. Spelling and Grammar: Pro: " I see my opponent doesn't cut the new fish any slack so if he wants fact sources real hard core proof here it goes first off im going to brake down each topic so were gonna start off with right to die " ~Con Arguments: Pro: Con has failed to refute any of my points or refutations, while her points are all refuted. Sources: Pro: Con has plagarized an entire round's worth of contentions. Not only that, but her two stated sources are google, and afterall.net (a search engine and a blog). Thank you for a very interesting debate. And for these reasons, Pro has clearly won the debate.