• jarfil@lemmy.world
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      2 年前

      Didn’t “euthanasia” apply to “individuals getting help to fulfill their death wish”? I don’t think the bear wants to die, if anything it will get murdered, as in “premeditated taking of a life, against the target’s wishes”.

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        2 年前

        You don’t take on a pack of wild gummy bears and come out alive. That bear had a death wish, sure as shootin.

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          2 年前

          “Humanely” implies a reason that isn’t just because it behaved not how you wanted it. That’s called “sacrificing” or at best “killing”, like when you want to eat steak but the cow insists on breathing.

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            2 年前

            I don’t want the bear to die. But that doesn’t change that the word doesn’t imply consent.

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              2 年前

              The word literally means “good death”, meaning for a good reason. Consent is one such reason, terminal illness is another, stealing gummy bears… is not.