Hmmm …
Have you been following the news?
If you have, you’ll know about the sad case of Charlie Gard.
Charlie has an incurable genetic condition: that means he is unlikely to live long, or well.
His parents are taking the hospital — Great Ormond Street — to court in order to keep him alive.
Great Ormond Street, on the other hand? Feel he should be allowed to die with dignity.
It’s contentious, it’s raising passions — understandable passions — and is a legal mess with very few in the way of popular solutions.
One thing I know I’ve seen reported in the press, though?
Is that the case has drawn protests.
Which is understandable.
But it seems that hospital staff have been receiving threats: including death threats.
Personally?
I can understand the protests: although I’m not sure if I totally condone them.
I feel they’re bringing in a certain element of emotional blackmail into an already fraught situation.
Saying that … ? I ALSO think there’s a level of behaviour in these situations that isn’t condonable.
Threatening behaviour towards hospital staff?
Is one such behaviour.
One I found on a par with the behaviour of some US anti-abortionists: who feel killing doctors who perform abortions to be a good thing.
One wrong does not necessarily make a right.
These threats?
Are a good example of exactly the sort of wrongs I mean.
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