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How awful would it be to wake up tomorrow and realize that you had totally missed the past fifteen years?
This happened to her in 1990. There's still a President Bush, but it's not the same George. America has been directly engaged in more than just a handful of military conflicts. We've had an amazing technological boon and a crippling economic crash. Attacks on American soil, atrocities in foreign lands, and political scandals out the wazoo.
The face of America has completely changed. From technology to sexuality to social interaction to gender roles to pop culture. In fifteen years, how much music, television, news, and life has she missed?
How many of her friends have been married? How many have died? How many have children? How many have moved on from losing her, how many have left the country, how many have won the lottery or started smoking crack?
How humane would it be to bring this person back into our world?
And, assuming the argument that she's been conscious and simply unable to respond, what's her brain been doing? What's her developmental process like?
What kind of a complete horror is it to be trapped in your own body, aware and awake, and unable to laugh, cry, scream for help or hold your husband's (or your mother's or father's) hand?
And what can fifteen years of this do to a person's psyche?
I just want the people who are arguing
for her life to know what they're asking for. Imagine being locked in a room and nourished for fifteen years with zero contact with the outside world, and then pretend that you'd want to try and adapt again.
And this is all
if she ever comes out of it.
Imagine if all of the money that's been spent on her near lifeless body had been given to a single parent or a starving family, instead of being pumped into a breathing corpse.
On another note,
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Originally Posted by Thomas Sowell
All this adds more urgency to the need to put judges on the courts who will follow the written law, not their own notions. We can only hope that the Senate Republicans have the guts to do that.
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