WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.759 One of the phrases I hate as a pro lifer 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:10.199 is the word or the expression culture wars. That conservatives 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:14.480 are getting too tied up in culture war debates and 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:19.559 they're not focused on what's you know, really important, like 5 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:23.640 you know per capita GDP, or you know, whether the 6 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:27.039 reconciliation bill is going to pass, or or cutting the deficit, 7 00:00:27.079 --> 00:00:32.119 which will never actually do. It seems like this word 8 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:38.439 culture war, this phrase culture war got created specifically as 9 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:43.039 a way to minimize the importance of social conservative issues. 10 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:51.640 Social conservative issues, particularly like LGBT related issues, marriage debate, 11 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:58.119 and most especially abortion. And it's a particularly American thing, 12 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:03.119 much to the grown own eye rolling dismay of European 13 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:08.120 liberals and American liberals who wish they were European liberals 14 00:01:09.159 --> 00:01:13.000 that in America and I don't know what it is. 15 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:19.200 It's the specifically American character, the character of American Catholics 16 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:23.359 and American Evangelicals most especially, that has allowed us to 17 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:30.400 keep fighting these fights when Catholics and Protestants in the 18 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:35.519 Old World stopped, when Catholics in much of Europe gave up, 19 00:01:38.040 --> 00:01:42.439 not all of Europe. Poland is still very vigorously Catholic 20 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.000 Ireland was pretty vigorously Catholic until a little bit ago, 21 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.239 but for the most part, Europe just kind of gave 22 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:56.879 up on fighting against abortion. The Europeans legalized gay marriage 23 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:05.000 without a tussle, without a fight, and without much debate. 24 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:07.359 And there's a certain when you go over to Europe 25 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.520 and you look at political parties over there, and you'll 26 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:15.479 see someone characterized as far right, far right, a far 27 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:20.719 right political party, which it's so ridiculous the way the 28 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:27.240 media characterizes European political parties. So there's usually usually the 29 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:31.319 division of labor is if they say that it's a 30 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:36.240 left wing party, what it means it's borderline communist. When 31 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:40.199 they say it's a center right party, it means pretty 32 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:43.120 much has the same beliefs as the Democrat Party in 33 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.800 the United States does. And then when they say hard 34 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:52.240 right or far right or extreme right, what they mean 35 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:56.240 is something that's almost as conservative as the Republican Party. 36 00:02:56.439 --> 00:02:58.680 That's what usually that's usually what they mean when you 37 00:02:58.719 --> 00:03:04.199 read any American media account of European politics. That's how 38 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.479 you have to translate it. When they say the center 39 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:09.960 left party, what they mean is almost socialist or pretty 40 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.000 much totally socialists. When they say center right, they mean 41 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:16.080 about as liberal as the modern day Democrat Party. And 42 00:03:16.120 --> 00:03:18.599 then when they say far right, hard right, they mean 43 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.599 almost as conservative as the Republican Party. Because even like 44 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:25.800 they're far right parties, they're hard right parties. Abortions not 45 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:31.360 on their radars. It's not even a debated issue. Family stuff, 46 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.319 transgender stuff, it's not really the subject of debate. And 47 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.719 Europeans will talk about how, oh, you know, well we 48 00:03:38.759 --> 00:03:40.960 don't have the kind of culture war fights like you 49 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:45.319 guys have in the United States. Well maybe you should. 50 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:57.159 Maybe you actually should, because in over the course of 51 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:07.520 this week, the United Kingdom has legalized both abortion through 52 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:15.680 birth and assisted suicide. Just today legalized physician assisted suicide. 53 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:22.360 Parliament has just passed this, and I want to talk 54 00:04:22.360 --> 00:04:26.800 about these things. So the sort of settlement that most 55 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:29.240 of Europe had landed on when it comes to abortion 56 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:34.639 was basically abortion restricted to the first half of pregnancy, 57 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:39.639 more or less, and that's actually the case in most 58 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:44.319 of Europe. In fact, that was one of the weird things. 59 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.959 When America was still living under rov Wade prior to 60 00:04:46.959 --> 00:04:50.519 twenty twenty two, the United States actually had far more 61 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:55.959 liberal abortion laws than any country in Europe did pretty 62 00:04:56.040 --> 00:04:58.720 much all of Europe banned abortion after about the twenty 63 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.319 week point of pregnancy, which is the halfway point. Many 64 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:04.160 countries in Europe restricted abortion only to the first trimester. 65 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:08.319 Some countries in Europe had other kinds of restrictions that 66 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:14.959 American pro abortion advocates would scream and shout and flail about, like, 67 00:05:15.879 --> 00:05:19.040 you know, certain certain hour like forty eight twenty four 68 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:23.240 to forty eight hour waiting periods, mandatory counseling before you 69 00:05:23.399 --> 00:05:25.720 got an abortion, stuff like that. There are all kinds 70 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.319 of these European restrictions. You know, we would think of 71 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.680 Europe as so culturally left wing. Actually they were more 72 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:33.839 conservative than American liberals are when it comes to the 73 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:42.879 question of abortion. But it's just not a live political 74 00:05:42.879 --> 00:05:47.600 issue over there. Especially in the United Kingdom, members of 75 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:50.399 the so called Conservative Party are just as likely to 76 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:54.759 be pro abortion as members of the Labor Party, the Tories, 77 00:05:54.959 --> 00:05:59.000 the Conservatives don't seem to give a hoot about abortion, 78 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:03.480 and it seems almost as if attitudes on abortion and 79 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:06.759 assisted suicide just seemed to vary from MP to MP. 80 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.920 You have some prominent members of Parliament like Jacob Breeze, Mogg, 81 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:17.759 who was very prominent under Boris Johnson, who was a 82 00:06:17.839 --> 00:06:22.160 very devout Catholic and he disliked abortion and things like that. 83 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:26.639 But Boris Johnson was I believe, was more okay with 84 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:30.079 it David Cameron okay, I mean such that it wasn't 85 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:33.920 even really that big of an issue. So they introduced 86 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:38.319 this bill to expand Great Britain's legalization of abortion too, 87 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:43.000 all the way through pregnancy forty weeks, and they pass 88 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.040 it with an enormous majority. Let's remember right now that 89 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.879 the Labor Party is in control in Parliament under Keir Starmer, 90 00:06:51.199 --> 00:06:56.319 who's the Prime Minister of Great Britain. They pass legal 91 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:01.319 abortion by a massive majority and without even like any debate. 92 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:08.319 That's the craziest thing about this. They passed Like you 93 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:11.199 guys may remember this, how like New York back in 94 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:17.240 like twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen, and a bunch of other 95 00:07:17.319 --> 00:07:21.240 states were passing these very aggressive pro abortion laws to 96 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:25.399 you know, get rid of penalties for babies who may 97 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:30.920 have survived childbirth, survived and attempted abortion and then just 98 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.079 not providing them with care. New York was decriminalizing certain 99 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.680 kinds of criminal abortion, like getting there's all kinds of 100 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.040 these insane super pro abortion laws that were being passed 101 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:44.519 in twenty eighteen, and they were huge national news stories. 102 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:48.439 In the United Kingdom, they just passed this law to 103 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:53.240 expand legal abortion all the way through full term pregnancy, 104 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:57.800 as in, in the United Kingdom, it's going to be 105 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:02.839 legal to kill a thirty nine week old baby in 106 00:08:02.879 --> 00:08:08.480 a forty week long pregnancy, which by the way, can 107 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.439 be done, I mean it is done in some states 108 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:17.600 in the United States. Pro abortion folks try to argue 109 00:08:17.600 --> 00:08:20.199 that it's only done because of medical emergencies. It's not 110 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.160 only done because of medical emergencies. Very often it's done 111 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:30.439 just for pure birth control reasons. And they just pass 112 00:08:30.519 --> 00:08:34.759 it with, as they call it, just a minimal amount 113 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:41.440 of so called backbencher debate, meaning it's the backbenchers, the 114 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.759 people who sit at the back benches of the Parliament, 115 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:49.200 who are, you know, the less important members of Parliament, 116 00:08:49.240 --> 00:08:52.320 the people nobody's heard of doing debates that no one's 117 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:58.080 really following very closely. So earlier this week they just 118 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:03.480 passed that how hum whistling past the graveyard, and then 119 00:09:03.559 --> 00:09:08.279 today they pass physician assisted at suicide. Now this was narrower. 120 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:13.759 There was much more national debate about this. The bill 121 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:19.919 would allow patients to be killed. So let's understand the 122 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:23.840 structure of most physician assisted suicide legislation. So and let 123 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:27.600 me define some terms. There's euthanasia and there's assisted suicide, 124 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:33.240 slightly different things. Physician assisted suicide basically means a doctor 125 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:39.720 prescribes poison to you that you ingest in the form 126 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:44.679 of a pill or something. So it's not the doctor 127 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:49.559 directly killing you, it's the doctor assisting you so that 128 00:09:49.639 --> 00:09:57.919 you can kill yourself. Euthanasia is the doctor's the one 129 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:02.960 plunging the syringe. The doctor's the one adding the poison 130 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:09.159 to your IV. That's euthanasia. Okay, so there's a slight difference. 131 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:17.840 They're both bad. And the way most assistant suicide laws 132 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:20.039 are structured. This is how California's law is structure. This 133 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.440 is how the potential New York law is going to 134 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:25.399 be structured. This is how the UK's laws structured. Is basically, 135 00:10:25.799 --> 00:10:32.840 you get someone with some kind of a serious diagnosis that, 136 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:36.720 in the view of the lawmaker, renders one's quote quality 137 00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:42.279 of life to be lessened. Whatever that qualifying state is 138 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:50.000 that qualifies you to receive a prescription to request a 139 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.279 prescription from a doctor for physician assist at suicide. Now 140 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:56.159 here's the problem is that what is that definition of 141 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:59.320 what is that qualifying condition? So in California it's a 142 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.879 one year termminal diagnosis. You receive a terminal diagnosis that 143 00:11:02.919 --> 00:11:09.039 you're not going to outlive a year. Well, first of all, 144 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.679 those kinds of things are good faith estimates on the 145 00:11:12.720 --> 00:11:17.799 part of doctors. They are not set in stone, lock 146 00:11:17.879 --> 00:11:23.519 it down one hundred percent certainty guarantees. Right, It's not 147 00:11:23.720 --> 00:11:26.120 like if a doctor tells you you have eight months 148 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.039 to live, like on you know, seven months and twenty 149 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.840 nine days, you're perfectly fine, and then at you know, 150 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.519 seven months and thirty one days, you keel over dead 151 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.039 immediately at the stroke of midnight. That's not how that's 152 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:43.519 not how it works. It's an estimate. Maybe you'll make it, 153 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.480 maybe you won't. Maybe you'll live way beyond it, maybe 154 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:50.519 you'll have a really amazing recovery and you'll respond perfectly 155 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:53.039 to treatment in ways that people can't always foresee because 156 00:11:53.080 --> 00:11:56.240 there's a gazillion different variables, And maybe you'll outlive your 157 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:06.080 diagnosis by twenty years. Now, the problem is that the 158 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:14.879 category of who qualifies once you've crossed that fundamental boundary 159 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:24.360 of actively killing is okay. As opposed to the universal 160 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:31.360 accepted Western medical ethical practice of there is a significant 161 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:38.519 distinct difference between actively killing someone and deciding to withdraw 162 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:45.080 extraordinary means of care allowing nature to take its course. Okay, 163 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:51.600 there's a massive difference there, and it makes sense given 164 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 the anthropology behind this, Like you really have to go 165 00:12:55.120 --> 00:12:58.159 down to the fundamental question, why is killing people wrong? 166 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:03.000 Why is killing people bad? All right, let's actually break 167 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:04.639 it down, let's actually try to think about it and 168 00:13:04.679 --> 00:13:07.480 talk about it. Why is it bad to kill people? Well, 169 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.159 it's bad to kill people because we can see that 170 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:16.919 life living is a good. Okay, it is the good 171 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.440 towards which our bodies are oriented, towards which our human 172 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:27.720 nature is oriented. Death comes about through our bodies breaking down, malfunctioning, 173 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:33.360 not operating according to their proper ends. This is the 174 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:36.639 sense in which in Christian theology we would say death 175 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.399 is on or really maybe more Christian philosophy we would 176 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:44.799 say that, and not exclusively Christian philosophy, either Greek philosophy 177 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:50.679 Aristotelian philosophy. We would say that death is not natural. Yes, 178 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:53.519 it is a thing that happens to everybody, but it 179 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.120 involves the body breaking down, not functioning according to its 180 00:13:57.120 --> 00:14:04.000 proper flourishing. So here is death as this ill, as 181 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:11.919 bad as this natural evil, which, while it's contrary to 182 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:14.720 the good of our flourishing, is where we're all ending up. 183 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:24.519 That's where we're all going to deliberately actively bring that about. Then, 184 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.879 is clearly something different from letting it happen. It is 185 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:34.039 eventually going to happen to all of us. To actively 186 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:42.840 do it, though, to take a life involves this massive 187 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.120 disruption to the social order, taking someone out of the 188 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.559 political community that the community of all of us living together. 189 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:54.840 This is why murder is bad. Life is good. Human 190 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.159 beings are good. Human beings have connections to other human 191 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.840 beings because they are political animals in a community with others. 192 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:05.200 We love them, We care for them as goods in 193 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:06.960 and of them, as things that are good in and 194 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:10.960 of themselves. When you kill someone actively, you are acting 195 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:17.399 in a way that's contrary to nature, letting death happen, 196 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:22.200 allowing this natural evil to happen. Once you realize that 197 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:27.639 you cannot forestall it is one thing actively killing someone 198 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:35.200 is different. Once you cross the line of saying yes, 199 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.759 I can actively kill someone for some kind of quality 200 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.519 of life reason, where do you stop? Where do you 201 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:46.679 draw the line? How do you define what is or 202 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.759 isn't a good quality of life? The slippery slope has 203 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:55.360 to happen. Slippery slope argument is not a logical fallacy 204 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:58.000 when it comes to something like physician assistant suicide. Once 205 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:02.440 you have accepted the premise that you can actively kill someone, 206 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:09.440 including yourself, there is no stopping point anything that makes 207 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:13.399 someone say I don't if you say that someone should 208 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:17.200 die on the basis of some quality of life judgment, 209 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:22.720 there is no stopping point anymore. And that's why we 210 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:27.600 see with this bill in the UK, someone with anorexia 211 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:30.759 may be able to qualify for physician assistant suicide. We're 212 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:35.200 seeing this in the in Canada where people with depression 213 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:40.120 are qualifying for physician assistan at suicide. They're just offing 214 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:47.200 anyone who is becoming And this is what's happening as 215 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.879 people become inconvenient, and people are very inconvenient at the 216 00:16:50.919 --> 00:16:52.919 end of their life, and we'll talk about the cost 217 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:59.720 things next. This is why disabilities groups so often opposed 218 00:16:59.720 --> 00:17:04.960 physics assisted suicide because they are difficult, they are burdens 219 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:08.319 on society, and someone could push them to make value 220 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:12.920 judgments that their life is not worth Continuing now, when 221 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:16.200 we return, I want to talk about the financial side 222 00:17:16.359 --> 00:17:19.720 of assisted suicide and the deep injustice there. That's next 223 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:24.599 on the John Girardi Show. The United Kingdom just legalized 224 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:28.759 physician assisted suicide today. It's already legal in California, it's 225 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:31.559 legal in Canada, and I'm afraid it could spread to 226 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:35.839 more and more states throughout the United States. And this 227 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.279 is one of the reasons why I'm so terrified of it. 228 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:45.839 I retweeted this post to my Twitter account at Fresno Johnny. 229 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:51.039 This is a Twitter post from this woman, Caroline Pharaoh, 230 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:56.759 who is some kind of British TV news talking head. 231 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:02.200 She posts this sign that the anti assisted suicide advocates, 232 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:04.960 one of the anti assistant physicians' suicide advocates, was holding, 233 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.279 saying it won't be our choice for long, and then 234 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:14.079 has two little graphs, one for one cycle of chemotherapy 235 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:21.279 which costs three eighth and eighty five pounds, assisted suicide, 236 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:26.160 which costs one hundred eighty three pounds and that's it 237 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:33.319 right there. It is much cheaper. And this is a 238 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:36.000 huge appeal of physician assisted suicide that people are not 239 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.880 wanting to talk about on the pro assisted suicide side. 240 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.960 The pro assisted suicide side is trying to talk about autonomy, 241 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.880 allowing people to make their own decisions, and they're covering 242 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:50.960 up the enormous temptation that assisted suicide is going to propose. 243 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:54.480 For countries like the United Kingdom that have socialized medicine, 244 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.519 they got to balance their budgets, as well as countries 245 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.559 like America that have insurance companies that don't like paying 246 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:10.039 out for things. Assisted suicide is much cheaper than end 247 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:21.400 of life care, and that is its enormous risk. Most 248 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:25.519 of the healthcare resources that you are going to take 249 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:30.640 up over the course of your life, listener, you are 250 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.319 going to take up those resources in the last year 251 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:36.680 of your life. When I think of like my dad, 252 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:41.400 for example, Okay, my dad who passed away from cancer 253 00:19:42.440 --> 00:19:45.000 back of March in March of twenty twenty four. My 254 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:49.119 dad was a very healthy man. I don't know what 255 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.839 medical resources he took up over the course of the 256 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:56.440 first I don't know, sixty four years of his life. 257 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:58.680 Regular checkups. I don't know if my dad had ever 258 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:01.519 had a surgery. I don't know if he ever broke 259 00:20:01.559 --> 00:20:03.880 a bone. I guess maybe probably broke a bone or 260 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:08.680 something when he was a kid. I think he had 261 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:10.880 like some little skin cancer things that got whacked off, 262 00:20:10.880 --> 00:20:20.000 but nothing serious. The enormous majority of the healthcare resources 263 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:21.839 my dad took up over the course of his life, 264 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:23.480 he took up in his last like two or three 265 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:27.119 years of life. During his during the time that he 266 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:31.480 learned that he had cancer and treating the cancer and 267 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:36.359 surgeries to treat cancer, et cetera overwhelming percentage of it. 268 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:44.680 And we knew that my dad was likely was likely 269 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.799 going to die of his cancer pretty much for the 270 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:51.759 last year of his life. He died in March of 271 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:53.640 twenty four. We had learned in March of twenty three 272 00:20:54.519 --> 00:20:58.599 that the cancer had spread extremely broadly and that, you know, 273 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:06.640 his long term odds were not good, And so we 274 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:11.359 knew that my dad certainly would have qualified for physician 275 00:21:11.359 --> 00:21:18.000 assistant suicide at that point, and certainly it would have 276 00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.720 saved everyone a lot of money if he had taken 277 00:21:21.920 --> 00:21:26.559 up on that. And I'll just say this, I wouldn't 278 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:29.839 trade that one last year I had with my dad 279 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:35.759 for anything, And I know it was horribly difficult on 280 00:21:35.839 --> 00:21:39.160 my mom. It was difficult on everybody. I mean, he 281 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:42.519 had all kinds of complications, especially towards those last months. 282 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:47.680 But you know, he got to see my kids grow 283 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:49.920 one year older. He got to be with my kids 284 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.880 a little more. He got to see his grandson play 285 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:55.519 a flag football game. He you know, he got to 286 00:21:55.599 --> 00:22:03.359 sit together and just but yeah, you know, I'm gonna 287 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:06.119 start crying if I talk too much more. But the 288 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:09.200 point I'm trying to make is from a public policy angle, 289 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:12.759 social liberals who are okay with killing people because that's 290 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:20.920 apparently there they're mantra they are going to in. They 291 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:25.599 are hugely incentivized from a cost saving perspective to push 292 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:33.200 people into physician assisted suicide rather than getting end of 293 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.039 life care because end of life care is way more expensive. 294 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:38.559 And I think that's especially. I think that's going to 295 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:41.519 be true both in countries with socialized medicine like Canada 296 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:43.960 and the United Kingdom, and I think it's going to 297 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:47.960 be true even in certain cases in America with insurance 298 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:52.759 companies who don't want to pay out for things. It 299 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:56.880 won't be your choice for long, and especially in the 300 00:22:56.920 --> 00:22:59.640 socialized medicine system where you know, not everyone can get 301 00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:04.599 cataly care, they might start saying to people, the government's 302 00:23:04.599 --> 00:23:09.559 not going to pay for your chemotherapy, but we will 303 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:15.759 pay for a physician assistant suicide. So it's going to start, 304 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:22.319 as you know, voluntary physician assistant suicide, and it's going 305 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:32.799 to slide into direct and involuntary euthanasia. I'm it's hard 306 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:36.839 to think how the financial pressures don't immediately push in 307 00:23:36.880 --> 00:23:40.559 that direction. And that's why people with disabilities so often 308 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.839 opposed physician assistant suicide because their healthcare is really expensive too. 309 00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:49.960 When we return, all the worst people in American politics 310 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:52.640 have all gotten mad at Donald Trump in the course 311 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:54.519 of the last seventy two hours. That's next on the 312 00:23:54.559 --> 00:23:58.200 John Girardi Show. All right, I want to talk about 313 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:00.440 Ron for a little bit and the way that Donald 314 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:03.240 Trump has managed to make all of the stupidest people 315 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.920 on both sides of the should we shouldn't we get 316 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:12.240 involved debate. So there are two kinds of extremely stupid 317 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:16.920 people in the debate, and then I think two kinds 318 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:20.240 of more reasonable people. So the two kinds of extremely 319 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:24.119 stupid people and I'll have the two sides. It's not 320 00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:28.720 really left or right, it's restrainers and interveners. And by 321 00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:30.680 the way, this seems to be a conversation that's only 322 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:35.680 happening on the right. The left, I feel, is like 323 00:24:36.079 --> 00:24:40.720 totally disengaged from the Iranian conflict, and I feel like 324 00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:47.119 all they're really doing is trying to position themselves to 325 00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:52.079 say that whatever Donald Trump does is bad. So if 326 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:58.279 Trump does intervene, he's a horrible, escalating warmonger monster who 327 00:24:58.319 --> 00:25:02.359 didn't go to Congress for congressional pproval or whatever. If 328 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:09.640 Trump doesn't intervene, then oh, he loves Iranian terrorists, and 329 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:12.799 different Democrats will sort of position themselves to criticize him 330 00:25:12.799 --> 00:25:16.039 for that. If he does attack, then the AOC types 331 00:25:16.079 --> 00:25:21.400 will say that he's a monster if he excuse me. 332 00:25:21.440 --> 00:25:24.119 If he does attack, the AOC types will say he's 333 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:27.759 a monster. If he does not participate, does not engage, 334 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:31.839 does not attack, then maybe the sort of more moderate 335 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:36.720 leaning types like I don't know, maybe John Fetterman will 336 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:40.240 criticize him, or Chuck Schumer will. I don't want to 337 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:44.720 use Chuck Schumer or Josh Shapiro as the examples because 338 00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:48.359 they're both Jewish, but I could I could see more 339 00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:54.480 moderate liberals criticizing Trump for that. Anyway, the left seems 340 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.599 totally disengaged. So I'm gonna this is an intra right 341 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:01.960 wing argument, intra and write argument. So you've got the 342 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:08.119 restrainers and you've got the interventionists, all right. The stupidest 343 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:13.519 restrainers are the Candace Owens types, and to a certain extent, 344 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:18.599 Tucker Carlson. Candace Owens I think is dumber than a 345 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.359 bag of rocks. And I think she's always been kind 346 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:25.319 of dumb, and it's only now that people are starting 347 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.279 to kind of see it that she's pretty anti Semitic 348 00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:32.960 at this point. And the anti interventionists who are just like, 349 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:36.720 we're not gonna die for another Israeli war is all right, Well, 350 00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:43.519 let's calm down. Israel was not the reason we intervened 351 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:47.640 in Afghanistan or Iraq. That wasn't the reason why. And 352 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.279 we haven't actually fought any of Israel's wars. Israel has 353 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:53.759 fought all of them. Now, do I think maybe we 354 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.079 are too over involved with Israel? We give them lots 355 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:02.279 of military aid, which redounds to our ill in the 356 00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:04.559 long run. In many cases. I mean, one of the 357 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:08.319 chief reasons why countries in the Middle East hate are 358 00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:10.319 Guts so much is because of our support for Israel. 359 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:15.640 Am I generally against the idea of proxy wars and 360 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:18.200 the fact that we fund Israel militarily so much that 361 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:20.359 it puts us on the hook for stuff that they 362 00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:23.200 do in various kinds of ways. Yes, I'm critical of 363 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.599 all those things, but I never veer into the kinds 364 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:33.559 of anti Semitic sort of nonsense that Owens does. And 365 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.319 I think Carlson and Owens have been sort of stooges 366 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.599 for some of the stupider foreign policy ideas, the idea 367 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.880 of Vladimir Putin's actually maybe a really good guy, and 368 00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:45.880 why are we being so harsh on him? Like, well, no, 369 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:50.160 Vladimir Putin's a bad guy. No one needs to dispute 370 00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:54.480 that it's bad to invade other countries. Whether he was 371 00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:56.839 he felt some sort of pressure to do it, you 372 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:01.400 still shouldn't do it. It's bad. Okay. I'm not gonna 373 00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:05.119 be crying alligator tears for Vladimir Putin because countries in 374 00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:10.559 Europe wanted to join NATO. Forget No, I'm sorry, I'm 375 00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:13.880 not gonna feel bad for Vladimir Putin for starting a 376 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:17.200 horrific war in which what is it now, hundreds of 377 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:20.799 thousands of people have died. No, Vladimir Putin's a bad guy. 378 00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:23.920 He started that war. It's his fault anyway. So the 379 00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:28.279 candae Owens and Tucker Carlson types were totally dismayed a 380 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:30.640 couple of days ago, and it looked like the United 381 00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:34.319 States was about to join up with Israel in air 382 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:39.319 strikes on a run. Super ticked off about it, and 383 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:43.839 all the neocons were gloating. Now this leads me to 384 00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:47.920 the other group of people I despise, the mega neocon 385 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:54.079 types who were gloating against the Tucker Carlsons of the world. 386 00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:58.359 That ha, the President is ready to go. He's gonna 387 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:02.000 tax see you you all, you restrainer types. You thought 388 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:04.640 you had Donald Trump. You thought his foreign policy was 389 00:29:04.680 --> 00:29:07.880 your foreign policy. Turns out he's not as doctrinaire about 390 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:09.920 any of this, and you guys are gonna lose. And 391 00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:15.359 Trump's gonna bomb a run ha ha. And the super 392 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.839 interventionist types who have wanted regime change in Irun for forever, 393 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.640 and frankly, who doesn't want regime change in Iran. It's 394 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.720 a horrible regime. The problem is how do you do it? 395 00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:28.720 And the restrainer types would say there's no way to 396 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:38.039 do it easily. However, the interventionist types swiftly shifted from 397 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:42.119 you know, support for whatever the Israelis are doing, to oh, 398 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:46.839 maybe we give them some bunker buster bombs to regime change. 399 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:55.160 Let's regime change. And it gets to the point where 400 00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:59.839 the worst people on the interventionist side. Probably the worst 401 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:03.799