Once the principle guaranteeing my right to life is undermined, that provides precedent for the state to further undermine my right to life. This is already happening with abortion, and euthanasia is merely another step towards the state taking control over an individual's birth and death. If you have any libertarian streak in you, you should be up in arms against euthanasia. On the other hand, if you want others, such as the state, to control the critical portions of an individual's life, then you are the enemy.

That's an edge case that is not worth risking my right to life over. If someone is concerned about that happening to them in the future, they can take proper precautions in the present. We can't make the law cater to every individual's whim, some people will always be unhappy.

You've always got that right. It's very difficult to take it away from you.

Used to be that doctors, who hold control over the life and death of many, had to take the Hippocratic oath that they would not abuse their power. Now the oath is all but defunct, and many medical schools don't even require the oath. With legislation such as this, there is no way after the fact to ascertain whether the patient actually asked for death or not, and even whether the condition is critical is often a judgment call of the doc. Under the guise of humanitarianism, such legislation removes the checks, as slight as they may seem, that keep a doctor from abusing their power. For a forum that uses the slightest provocation to complain about the erosion of our rights, you all seem remarkably silent about the erosion of your very right to life!

Technically, even with a truly infinite amount of resources, it isn't necessarily the case that all possible results just happen. For example, consider an infinite random walk in 3 dimensions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk#Higher_dimensions The chance the random walk ever returns to its origin is just 34%, not 100%.

I've heard the protein folding problem is quite likely NPC. How can people with slow brains outperform the best algorithms and computers of our day?

I've seen those militaries overseas and I'm not impressed. I'd prefer we not become like those militaries.

Currently women are not allowed to serve on the frontlines. If military leadership believes letting women serve on the frontlines will cause more military casualties, I'm sure the same reasoning applies to homosexuals.

I believe these sorts of decisions should be mostly left up to commanders who know what it takes to keep their people alive. These decisions should not be dictated by politicians in DC.

From your link: "It is often maintained that Bruno was executed because of his Copernicanism and his belief in the infinity of inhabited worlds. In fact, we do not know the exact grounds on which he was declared a heretic because his file is missing from the records. Scientists such as Galileo and Johannes Kepler were not sympathetic to Bruno in their writings."