Unfortunately, teenagers aren’t likely to share Dean Burrows’ “annoying
rationality" in "fathoming the difference between
euthanasia and suicide”. Teenagers are profoundly influenced by their culture
and if that culture favours the sick and elderly ending their own lives they’ll
naturally assume it’s okay for them to do it too.
Burrows’ shallow thinking is shared however by Jacinda Ardern, and not just
on euthanasia but abortion, which she wants ‘decriminalised’.
Anecdotally it seems Catholic voters don’t know that. Catholic bishops have
failed to warn their flock of the horrifying prospect of electing New Zealand’s
own Hillary Clinton, and those in the know are dithering and squirming.
Left-leaning Catholics are reluctant to abandon their traditional vote for
Labour, and nine years of leaving the most vulnerable to their own devices
tempts right-wing Christians to desert Bill English.
So it’s not surprising the polls are all over the place. Obviously, one
person’s “annoying rationality” is not necessarily another’s.
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