mrs schaivo's husband and parents have been trying to decide what is best for her because of her perceived inability to function as a human being. i would hope that if either toby or i had to face such a predicament, we would follow the instructions we have given each other. no brain waves, no ability to think, means we are no longer alive. the flesh that can function with help from outside sources would only keep the flesh functioning, not unlike a heart kept beating in a glass bowl with blood and electrical stimulation still pumping. like a dead frog the has muscle responses to electrical stimulation.
but more to the point. i am trying to remember, referring to my notes, what the founding fathers,
there were no founding mothers, albeit without the mothers, there would have been no fathers, had to say about someone like mrs schaivo.
between trying to decide how groups of people who could not attend every meeting about what the country should do regarding the minutia of the country and agreeing that a group of people in a town or village could pick someone to speak for them, a representative, if you will, and what to do about a state or commonwealth with a lot of spokesman trying to work with a smaller state with less spokes people, and finally compromising to have two seperate groups that could work fairly with each other to find the common, most acceptable solution to each of the countries needs,
and trying to decide whether white colored people had the right to keep black colored people much the same as they kept their goats, chickens, cows and horses, except the white colored people could beat the crap out of them and **** the young ones that they found attractive, i mean the black colored people, not the goats, chickens, cows, or horses, mrs shaivo's name never came up.
over the years these spokesman on behalf of the people spoke for made decisions, like let's have a postal system that would be the same for everyone so people could write letters to each other and get letters in return. when people complained that some folks were driving their buggys too fast through a crowded town, endangering children and older people who couldn't hear and couldn't get out of the way, they agreed on some rules about driving too fast because those driving too fast because they liked the feel of the wind or were in a hurry because they overslept, would have to abide by, to protect others.
again in all these discussions and meetings no one brought up mrs schaivo' problem. there was of cours,
a general feeling about what the discussions and meeting were supposed to be about, and there was a consensus that the spokesman should keep their business limited to things that had an affect on the people as a whole and not butt into the personal lives of people who did things that did not have any impact on others.
people could build a barn or a house out of whatever they had available, mud, wood, or rocks. people could build a fence as long as it was on their own property and again they could build any fence they felt served their needs.
then some idiot convinced some other idiot that they should get together and convince the other idiot spokesmen that it would be a good idea if the central government would spend money from the common coffers to build a road for their own people, so they wouldn't have to walk in the mud to church.
that was all it took, and they were off and running. the common coffers were fair game for anyone smart enough steal some of it.
but again mrs schaivo's name never came up.
next thing you know, these spokesman were deciding who could have sex with who and under what conditions and once you are in someone's bedroom, you own their lives.
now mrs schaivo is fair game.
