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Show j Can You Solve This Problem? Should the state kill cripples and those afflicted with incurable maladies. Lawmakers of Czecho-Slovakia propose to indorse such a system. They would allow two physicians to examine the candidates candi-dates for death. Then, if it was agreed that recovery -was hopeless, a painless going-out would be arranged for the victim. The new code also exempts from punishment anyone who helps another to commit suicide. ' '" ' "These proposals-represent the "practical way" of looking look-ing at life. Their basis is the theary that no one is consulted about his coming into the world, and therefore is under no obligation obli-gation to consult anyone about going out. In America we take the view that, once here, it is your duty to live, however painful the process may be to you, however how-ever costly your survival may be to relatives or the state.; - You are forbidden to take your own life, oil the theory that it isn't your property, but that of the state. ' ' Some people argue that any kind of life, however dreadful, dread-ful, is to be preferred to death, Uvith its mysteries and uncertainties. un-certainties. Others assert that, when life becomes "unbearable, "unbear-able, the sufferer has the moral right to end it:' ' " To us, a decision seems impossible. We doubt if - there is one. ' ' - ' ' " But we do not agree with the theory that- your life1 belongs be-longs to the state. We think, rather, that the state exists for your benefit, and not vice versa. Should mankind eliminate its incurables mental and physical? 1 It will be many weary years before-we solve that' problem. |