Comment on Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules

• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let’s not punish children for having morons as parents

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We do, but parental control over minors’ medical procedures becomes a huge issue here. If a 16 year old wants a lifesaving transfusion some places allow their parents to refuse it for them on religious grounds. The same applies to younger children as well.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meh I was just being needlessly angry and annoyed. I don’t think we should let people die like that. Especially kids. Life saving treatment should never be up to the parents to decide, except in some very specific cases. Once they turn 18 they can make their own decisions, but fuck everything about putting your personal beliefs over your children’s lives and health.

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    • Tweak@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In this instance it was the 16 year old child themselves refusing, and the hospital determining that she had capacity to do so. That’s why they went for a court order, so the decision and liability wouldn’t fall on them.

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      • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Only further goes to show that I should read the fucking article before raging, and then instead of raging stay rational. I give enough shit to others for doing precisely that. :/

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• baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de [bot] ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  from what I’ve heard from “genetically modified skeptic” (someone who grew up in an isolated fundamentalist christian community with homeschooling and now has changed and makes youtube videos about his experiences) the indoctrination is so serious and deep that many can’t escape it even as an adult, even with mountains of evidence, even when it would be to their benefit to drop old beliefs, and so i believe it’s not really their fault if they turn out to be hateful and dangerous people. even if they were at fault, i still don’t necessarily want people to die for misguided beliefs. I’m still debating whether that kind of compassion should also work for people like trump, vance, kirk, thiel, musk, etc. but imo it should work for regular religious fanatics.

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