Let The Healers Heal And The Killer Kill

by Joe Siano

This week a New Jersey grandmother became on one of the first “beneficiaries” of New Jersey’s physician assisted suicide law.

Moral and ethical arguments aside, using doctors to terminate life is a misallocation of resources.

The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of “up to nearly 122,000 physicians by 2032 as demand for physicians continues to grow faster than supply”.  They assert that about 96,000 additional doctors are needed right now.

Training a physician takes between 7 to 15 years and costs more than $1.1 million .  This not include the opportunity cost of them working in alternative professions.

It seems shameful to put these precious individuals, so assiduously trained in in the science and art of healing, to work killing people.  America is awash in well-schooled killers.

The United States Armed Forces employs nearly 2.2 active duty and reserve military personnel.    This includes some 72,000 Special Forces warriors. 

In contrast to physician training, Special Forces training takes a little over a year plus boot camp.  These highly trained warriors eventually cycle back to civilian life – many in search of gainful employment.

America’s Finest could easily relieve America’s healers of life termination chores.  In fact, I am sure that they would do it swiftly, quietly and painlessly.  That’s what they do.

Is using our plentiful armed forces personnel to kill civilians any less ethical than using our precious healers?  I say not.

Since assisted suicide is regarded as a humanitarian enterprise, it is logical extension of America’s policy of humanitarian intervention.

Humanitarian intervention is the War Party’s sales tool for soft selling invasion and killing – all in the name of protecting foreign peoples from their own governments. 

If soldiers killing people abroad is a humanitarian endeavor, how can it be less so here at home?

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