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But one of the groups with the most power, who are almost never acknowledged as powerful, who are more powerful than they've ever been in all of human history, are physicians, healthcare workers, doctors, and nurses, people with needles.
They have the power of life and death more than any member of Delta Force, more than any FBI agent or capital police officer. They can decide whether you live and die. And this is obvious, of course. It's the nature of their job.
And so a thoughtful, responsible society sets up structures to make sure that they cannot abuse that power. Not because all doctors are bad or all nurses are bad, but because that's an awful lot of power to vest in any individual. And so you need to have rules to prevent those people from abusing them.
And the medical profession for literally thousands of years since the ancient Greeks has had those rules. And they're broad, but not maybe as broad as you think. It's called the Hypocratic Oath. And once again, it's been around since ancient Athens. And its most famous line, first do no harm, doesn't actually seem to appear in the text. But you may be surprised to learn what does appear in the original text and how it has been changed. And because this tells us so very much about where we are right now, we thought it would be worth reading it.
So here is an actual line from the Hypocratic Oath, the real Hypocratic Oath before it was rewritten post-war in the West. And it says this, "Neither will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a medical instrument to cause abortion, but I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art."
Thousands of years ago, wise people understood that the power to kill resided inherently in doctors and that the temptation to kill, possibly at the request of the patient, would be everpresent, but that crossing that line would turn the doctor from a healer into a killer. And in that process, the essence would be lost. You don't go to a killer to be healed. You can't.
But that those several lines, broad and general as they are, prove too restrictive for the post-Nazi but not really post-Nazi medical establishment of the 1940s. And so they changed the post-war medical establishment changed the language. Here's the new version of the Hypocratic oath, and we're quoting this directly. It may also be within my power to take a life. This awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.
Oh, so we go from you cannot kill people. Your job is to heal them. Even if they ask you to kill them, you can't do that because that is crossing a line from which you cannot return. You are no longer a healer but a killer. And that was in place for thousands of years. And then we get to post-Nazi, but not really post-Nazi. we get to, yeah, you can kill people, but as you kill people, just remember that you're you're only human.
Is it possible to remember that you're only human as you're taking a human life? Probably not. Because by definition, you assume a faximile of god-like power. You are ending life. You are the destroyer, Shiva, the destroyer. And so that is the temptation. More powerful a temptation than sex or money. the ultimate temptation, the temptation to extinguish life. And we have granted that without really any oversight at all to our entire medical class.
And it's interesting to note that after the much discussed and written about and publicized atrocities of the Nazi youth in Asia program, very few of the physicians involved in it were punished. Some were, some were hung, but many, the overwhelming majority were not. And in fact, some of them doctors who had killed children who admitted killing children because they weren't smart or they were in institutional care. They just killed them, starve them to death, injected them with poison. Those doctors not only escaped punishment after the war, but in some cases in Austria, for example, became very famous, very prominent physicians, testified in court as experts, were looked to as the person you would go to in a court of law for the truth about medicine and medical ethics.
So, they weren't punished because they're not actually doctors. They're a priest class, very much like the Aztecs or the Incas or any human sacrifice-based religion has a priest class. And their job is to decide not who lives or dies, but when their job is not to heal, but to kill. And that's where their power comes from. So if you're wondering, could this happen in our country? Oh yes, it is. Would doctors go along with it? Oh, absolutely. In fact, they are, and there's nothing to stop them.
But then you ask yourself, wait a second. Could this really happen at scale? Isn't euthanasia kind of the thing that only desperate people reach for? You get ALS, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, some horrifying illness whose end is certain. There's no treatment for ALS. There's usually no treatment for stage 4 pancreatic cancer except in rare cases. Same with lung cancer. Same with any of the illnesses that people you know and love have died from. At a certain point, you know what's coming. And you know, part of what's coming is awesome and horrifying, horrible, grueling suffering that you, as someone who's not undergone it yet, can't fully imagine, but dread.
Well, that is the most human response possible. Nobody wants to go through that kind of suffering. And nobody wants to see a loved one go through that sort of suffering and be diminished, lose control of himself, lose his mind as you do with dementia. These are the most basic things that people fear. And so if you approach those people who are right to be afraid of that level of suffering, there's no minimizing it. It's every bit as bad in some cases as we imagine it is. If you approach those people and say, as Kathy Hokll did, well, we've got we've got a solution. We we we have an elegant solution to a problem. We can hasten death. We'll just kill you. Of course, they won't say that. You imagine that only in those cases would it be used?
Now, it may be worth pausing to ask, why is there so much suffering in death? Why is there so much suffering in childbirth? Clearly, this is a matter of design. Not all animals suffer in childbirth. Not all animals seem to suffer in death. But people do. They suffer on the way in and they suffer on the way out. Is there a reason for that? Is there a purpose behind the design? Is there something to learn from that experience of suffering? These are not questions we ask in a materialist society. We're as shallow as a coffee stain. No one even considers questions like that.
Previous civilizations have thought a lot about this and have reached very different conclusions. But in a society based on the avoidance of pain, the easy prescription of painkilling drugs, no one even entertains these questions. But the one question, even if you dismiss all of that as metaphysical nonsense, the one question you should be asking is, hey, if applied nationally, could physician assisted suicide extend beyond people with ALS and stage 4 pancreatic and esophageal cancer and, you know, o all the normal horrible diseases that people, you know, get and die from. Is it possible that government officials and physicians and nurses would be so unethical or so morally ungrounded that they would allow pretty healthy people or depressed people or people who could get better with treatment that is just too expensive for the state to provide those people to be killed?
Well, we don't have to guess about this because euthanasia state sponsored killing of its own citizens has been in place for more than 10 years in Canada, which in case you're not familiar with it, is the second largest country in the world, which is directly above us. We share the longest land border on Earth with it. It's our largest trading partner. It's also the most resourced dense country in the world. In some ways, it's the richest country in the world. that has the most natural resources relative to population of any nation on the planet. Canada is inherently important to the United States and to the world. Not that you would know that because no one approaches it that way, but that's just inherently true. There's no changing that.
So in Canada, a place that we ignore as a matter of policy, in Canada, the so-called maid program, medical assistance and dying, has been the law per the Supreme Court of Canada since 2016, almost 11 years. And in that time, over 100,000 Canadians have been killed by their government. And what what's interesting about this is that in a country with fewer than 40 million people, that's now a leading cause of death. That is one of the leading ways that Canadians die. They are killed by their government. That's the first thing you notice. That's an incredibly large number. We haven't bothered to get the calculator out to do the proportion in the United States, but a 100,000 in a country of fewer than 40 million. What would that mean in a nation of 350 million? That's a lot of people in 10 years. That's a huge number of people.
How could a 100,000 Canadians be killed by the Canadian government over the last 10 years? And you may not even know that happened. Most Canadians are not aware that that happened. In fact, that number 100,000 was not advertised by the government. They did a lot to keep that secret. That government number was unearthed by a private researcher, Kelsey Sharon, who we're going to speak to in a minute, who's one of the only people in the entire nation of Canada who's paying attention to this. But make no mistake, this is what matters. If you're trying to assess what's important in the news today, could it be some pop stars wedding at Madison Square Garden or the fact that a 100,000 people were just killed by their government right north of us? probably go with the latter because when you really get down to it, what matters is who lives and who dies. Those are final decisions.
And if you want to judge whether a country is thriving, you look at that question through a bunch of different measurements. Birth rate, life expectancy, etc., etc., suicide rate, and of course, the number of citizens the government kills. And by those measures, there is no darker country probably on planet Earth than Canada. Again, the countries that we describe as rogue and outlaw and out of control and run by religious extremists, whether it's Russia or North Korea or Iran, it's certainly not a compliment to those countries to just say none of them have killed a 100,000 of their citizens in the last 10 years. That's not an advertisement for North Korea, Ron, or Russia, but it's just a fact. But Canada has.
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