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I always suspected it, but now it's obvious that some of the Conservatives on this site frequent fringe Right Wing conspiracy sites........Maisie's screed on the subject of the unfortunate case of baby Alfie, is an example of the fact and logic-free fare served up by these sites......It is so unhinged that I feared for the balance of her mind............ Especially ironic is Maisie's constant claim that the Left's opinions are emotion-based, while she and her Right wing companion's thinking is always logic and fact-based. The level of hysteria and obvious inaccuracy led me to look deeper into the situation and I really can't imagine how anyone could not only swallow it without question, but then extrapolate it into a slippery-slope, Soylent Green conspiracy.......Healthy scepticism smothered by confirmation bias
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I agree with both ET and Sparkle. I find it absolutely deplorable that they constantly put down the "biased, lying media"...except when there's a blog in it that (they think) can further their political agenda! Empathy, as a word and as a human emotion is missing from their vocabulary. They don't give a fig about poor little Alfie... all they are interested in is making political headway (on a blooming website too!) by purely exploiting him...and his parents.
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Sometimes the impending death of a child causes the parents to make illogical decisions based on hope rather than the actual situation and sometimes those parents misrepresent their situation to a media that is all too willing to sensationalize and weaponize the rhetoric......When teams of medical experts disagree with the parents on the best way forward, the courts intervene. It's the same in the US.......... The press keeps saying that the doctors couldn't diagnose the child;s illness. That's only true in the sense that it was an extremely rare condition and they didn't have a name for it. The results of the condition were obvious.....His brain deterioration was irreversible. The press also repeated that the doctors wouldn't give him food and drink. The child had been on life-support in a semi-vegetative state for over a year and was incapable of eating all that time.....he was fed intravenously and was not aware of being fed and incapable of being aware of it....The parents couldn't face reality and with the prodding of the media, reached out to other countries.......The British courts heard the case twice and made their decision based on what was best for the child who was being kept alive beyond what was best for him. It was time to let him go......... The American courts also intervene in cases where medical authorities deem the parents are not representing the best interests of the child.
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