1 post tagged “mental health”
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/06/states_try_to_d.html
I chose the USA Today article because the NY Times article requires registration. But I read the NY Times article.
Look, this one is simple:if you take away the right to vote based upon a medical condition that the state determines, you effectively have shot through the right to vote at all, because let's say that you get declared mentally "incompetant" tomorrow: then, you cannot vote.
I'm not much of a libertarian, but it seems to me that giving the state the right to determine your state of being is a mistake. Likewise, allowing the state to decide life or death for individual citizens is a mistake. I thought it was all about "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness". Guess we've devolved into a society of pointing fingers and restrictions, and the pursuit of personal power.
Stalin, somewhere, is smiling.
