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Profess @JMU: religion, science, dao. "Natural" on how to love nature without worshipping it: http://tinyurl.com/y75tpmog . Tweets are my own opinions.

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    Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

    Alan Levinovitz Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

    There's about a billion things to criticize in this article. I'll pick just one. Read through it, and then tell me how the author could possibly argue against Christian Scientists refusing all medical treatment for themselves or their children.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1260706886325882881 …

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    Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
    Me @NRO: It Is Not Hypocrisy for Pro-Lifers to Accept a Risk of Death https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/it-is-not-hypocrisy-for-pro-lifers-to-accept-a-risk-of-death/ … pic.twitter.com/KlJbWscEFC
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    • James C.Coyne Alicia The Irony Skeleton Left The Center james hobart Nicole M. Werewolf-erton Collin Fisher, PhD Dani M. 🏳️‍🌈 🇸🇩 MLT (ASCP) Chrissy is judging vaccine refusers
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      2. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

        You see, he draws a (clear?!) distinction between "direct and intentional killing"—which is bad bad BAD!!!—and "the inability to impede death," which is the "natural end of all life." So...why take your kid to a doctor, if your religion tells you that you shouldn't?

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      3. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

        The answer, of course, is that risking your kid's life in that way, when you could protect them, is also bad bad bad. Those parents are not doing the right thing. But if you think "not impeding death" is different in kind, then you can't make that argument.

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      4. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

        It gets worse, though. The wiggle room comes with this line, which equivocates between actively taking life away and "refusing life-or-death assistance". The article's entire premise depends on the idea that deliberate taking of life—as opposed to *not acting*—is uniquely bad!pic.twitter.com/WBXPJBbPYu

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      5. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

        The Christian Scientist will be happy to tell you that many children with cancer spontaneously remit. So chemo certainly isn't "life-or-death" assistance. On top of that, refusing to go to chemo is just...going along with the natural end of life. Not actively taking a life.

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      6. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

        At any rate, I'm just exhausted by sloppy arguing. I actually agree with some of the article. This graf, for example, makes a good point that gets ignored. But it's lost in a haze of trying to protect a form of reasoning, that for all its depth and ancientness, is incoherent. /xpic.twitter.com/slLono9whp

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      2. Alan Levinovitz‏Verified account @AlanLevinovitz 13 May 2020

        It is. But as soon as he concedes that the law shouldn't allow parents to withhold that kind of care, he opens up his stark binary to additional critiques. That's why he can't concede it—and doesn't, amazingly enough!

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