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Originally Posted by rogermevens
he is of an age that the law allows him to make this judgment if the parent were forcing this choice on him then others would complain on that too
should i stop my kids crossing roads, swimming in the sea, working on a building site, driving cars or going to war zone?
my extended family have lost members to all of those things all a lot more common things for a JW to die from than the blood issue
one picks a course in life and tries to stick to your principles i admire any that stick to what they believe rather than just changing tack because the going gets tough
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Your hardly making a fair comparison roger, letting youngsters cross the road and swimming in the sea are hardly in the same ball-park as sitting back and watching your fifteen year old child die a completely meaningless and pointless death that could easily have been prevented.
As stated above the key point here is that the person in question is/was a child not an adult, so it was incumbent on those parents to have done everything reasonably possible to keep their son alive, and if that meant going against his wishes then so be it.
In the 21st century its complete bloody madness that a child is allowed to comitt suicide, with he's parents tacit approval, based wholly on a book written over two thousand years ago. I know you'll say that is a simplistic view of the JW faith, but essentially its no different had this child believed in the Greek gods and threw he's life away because Zeus was supposed to have made a vacuos statement concerning blood thousands of years ago.
What would society say if this had been the case?? there is absolutely no difference between either doctrines, they are both ridiculous.
This is no better than than state sanctioned suicide, how far is the state willing to go in letting children throw their lives away based on religious dogma??