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rains in America but you know we don't like to push it for any bad reasons. Oh fine thank goodness you have that button that you could simply push and it would change the world in a way that's good for you and bad for your enemies but you're not going to push it right? Do you promise? You swear? Don't push it. That's amazingly that's the situation we're in. And now there's some Republicans saying…
← Previous segment →pod with a glass top and you can get in this if you're ready for assisted suicide and they'll just turn up the, they fill it with nitrogen gas which rapidly lowers oxygen levels causing its user to die. I assume this is painless otherwise it wouldn't exist. Now of course the opponents say my God this will be abused. Would you agree that it will be abused and it won't just be people who are in desperate end of life situation but that it would naturally slide down to people who are just having a bad time in life? Yeah probably so.
I'll tell you I have very mixed feelings about it. Number one for 30 years I've imagined the invention of this product pretty much exactly the way it exists except I didn't know what gas would be involved. Although I thought it would be used for murder. I thought it would be more of a murder device. Here we'll tie your hands and put you in this pod and next thing you know you'll be dead. So I have mixed feelings about it because on one hand it looks like it will definitely be abused. No doubt about it. But you know what else is abused? Everything. Food is abused. Like the most innocent thing in the world is our food. We all abuse our food until we're like dying from food, eating too much food. So there's nothing we don't abuse. So on one hand you could say hey it's going to lead to all these abuses. On the other hand you could say well if it's a free country, at the moment this is only in Switzerland but if it were here I could easily say yeah it's totally going to get abused. So are guns. So is food. So is alcohol. So are cigarettes. All legal, all abused. So the fact that something is abused to the point of death is not a stopper. I mean if we were going to be objective about it it wouldn't be a stopper for any product. So would it be abused? Yes. Especially you know if things get worse in the future economically etc. But on the other hand I really really want this option for myself although I don't lik
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e the claustrophobia right before you die of being in a little casket thing. I don't like that part but I certainly like the option to be able to go out on my own terms. So I got mixed feelings about that. Here's another one. Should have asked Scott. Climate scientist Roger Pielke Jr. who has long been on the side of let's say skepticism. And I don't believe he's saying that there's no connection…
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