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"but on the media circus she became the center of.." One side cared about her, one side cared about the implication of what would become of "erring on the side of life. You have taken it upon yourselves to judge her parents as "misguided" because your politics force you to side with someone who threatened nurses (who spend far more time with patients than physicians) who attempted to give physical therapy to Terri. You have taken it upon yourselves to call doctors who disagreed with the few doctors Michael shiavo allowed to attend to her, the "worst doctors in the world." There is one side who felt political beliefs were enough to take a firm medical position in a case they know nothing about (read back - who here is making doctors of themselves).
"I think you can safely say that there is no further argument, merely spin." Convenient place to put your highness on, considering any further argument that may lead you to think differently would force you to accept your culpability in killing another human being. If it wasn't your politics that forced your opinion on the matter, it came down to "would i want to live like that." Your politics don't make you physicians, and there is no way you could possibly put yourself in Terri's situation and decide "what you would want." None of you know what she was going through - but all of you were comfortable pretending like you did, and taking a stance on Terri's fate.
As long as you can protect yourselves from accepting the possiblity that perhaps a life was unnecessarily taken by going back and forth from calling that life "brain dead" to "suffering (please explain to me how exactly)", and by putting those who believe as i do as "fringe lunatics", so be it.
Perhaps there will be a time when you won't view one's appreciation and reverence for life as "breathtaking perspicacity."
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