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The Netherlands are Proof, The Slippery Slope Exists. · The Slippery Slope

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  low. So some people do not believe in
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  the slippery slope argument. So I believe this next story
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  that I'm going to read to you is a definite example, obvious
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  slippery slope, and how one decision taking a certain path
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  can in the future lead you to drastic, drastic circumstances
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  in the future and have drastic dramatic outcomes.
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  And no matter what warnings, what warnings we we hear along
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  the way, we insist on taking the path and then we end up having
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  dire, seeing dire consequences in the future.
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  And then everyone behaves like they're they're surprised that
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  it could possibly have gone this way.
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  And then people still talk and argue.
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  Well, no, no. The slippery slope is just a
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  fallacy. It's not.
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  It doesn't happen in reality. I think this story supports the
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  argument that there definitely is a slippery slope in our
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  society when we take a certain path.
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  Check this story out. I I gotta tell you, I was her
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  always. I I wish that.
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  I wish I could say I was surprised.
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  I was saddened. You might have seen the story
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  come up. It did garner quite a bit of
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  publicity. This young female here, let's
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  have a read of it. Physically healthy 28 year old
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  woman schedules euthanasia due to depression.
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  Before we get into that, I just want to check out this is what
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  we have different assisted voluntary, they call it VAD here
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  in Australia. Voluntary assisted dying laws.
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  Um, so just in in all our states, it's now.
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  Euthanasia is now legal, so individuals must be Australian
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  citizens or permanent residents aged 18 or over.
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  They must be acting voluntarily, have decision making capacity
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  and have a terminal. Have a terminal medical illness
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  likely to cause death within six months or 12 months in the case
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  of neurodegenerative conditions. Queensland's rules differ.
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  The person applying and needs to have a condition likely to cause
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  death within the year. The medical condition must also
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  cause suffering that cannot be relieved tolerably anyway.
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  So the the argument has been for a while.
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  If we start down this this path, well then it will.
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  It will eventually lead to people being killed
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  unnecessarily. Maybe it's not always voluntary,
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  you know? Or maybe it's people you know
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  not having, not just having a physical ailments which will
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  definitely kill them. And this story here, like I
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  said, physical, healthy, physically healthy, 28 year old
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  schedules, euthanasia due to depression.
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  She's from the Netherlands, so her name is Zarya Terbeck
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  Terbaik, 28, lives in a small village in the Netherlands close
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  to the German border, and has decided to take her own life
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  with assisted suicide in May. According to a reporter, Zarya
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  has struggled with her mental health her whole life and
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  currently has a 40 year old boyfriend.
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  She's 28. He's 40.
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  Take what that what you will. I mean, I don't think see
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  anything particularly wrong with it, but what kind of a boyfriend
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  is this that he's not helping her, Helping her out of this,
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  Convincing her that this is not the right way to go?
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  Helping her? She's suffering from depression.
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  Crikey, you're not much of A boyfriend if you can't help her
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  with the depression. So she's got a 40 year old
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  boyfriend she's she loves and her two cats.
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  She has 2 cats to too many I reckon anyway, so she once
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  dreamed of becoming a psychiatrist, but is now set to
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  end her life later in the year after finding out about the
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  method when visiting the doctors who apparently told her there's
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  nothing more we can do for you, It's never going to get any
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  better. There's another picture of her,
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  Nothing they can do for her. This is the mental health
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  condition. Nothing they can do for her,
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  Zarya explained. I was very I was always very
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  clear that if it doesn't get better, I can't do this anymore.
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  She's talking about mental health, stiff grown wood, grown
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  wood, and I hate pronounced that anyway, a healthcare ethicist at
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  Theological University camping in the Netherlands said.
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  I'm seeing euthanasia as some sort of acceptable option
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  brought to the table by physicians by psychiatrists,
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  when previously it was the ultimate last resort acceptable
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  option. Where is this wall going?
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  I see the phenomenon especially in people with psychiatric
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  diseases and especially young people with psychiatric
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  disorders were the healthcare professionals seemed to give up
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  on them more easily than before. This is just amazing mind
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  blowing that your so called health professionals are just
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  giving up on patients with psychiatric issues.
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  Well then don't be a doctor if you're not if.
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  If you haven't got the ability to help someone live, don't be a
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  doctor. You're the last person we need.
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  Zarya is planning to be cremated after she is euthanased,
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  euthanised on the sofa in her living room.
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  She's explained she doesn't want any sort of music.
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  During the events, a doctor will first administer A sedative
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  followed by a drug that will stop her heart.
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  Her boyfriend will be at her side.
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  Crikey friends with a boyfriend like that, She said the doctor
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  really takes her time. It is not that they walk in and
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  say lay down, please, most of the time his first cup of coffee
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  to settle the nerves and create a soft atmosphere.
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  Then she asked if I'm ready. I will take my place in the
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  couch. She will ask again if asked if
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  I'm sure and she will start up with the procedure and wish me a
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  good journey or in my case a nice nap because I hate it if
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  people say safe journey, I'm not going anywhere.
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  The 28 year old doesn't have much family, so explained her
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  boyfriend will find a nice spot in the woods to spread her
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  ashes, she continued. I'm a little afraid of dying
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  because it's the ultimate unknown.
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  We don't really know what's next or is there nothing.
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  That's the scary part. This is the this is the point
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  I'm talking about. This is the reason why I'm
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  saying this is a slippery slope and this is where Australia has
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  taken us, OK, we are down this slippery slope.
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  So they can say as it said four in the and in the other in the
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  other article that you know Australia, you have to be a
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  citizen, you have to have a, you know you have to have a an
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  illness that will end your life within 6 or maybe 12 months and
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  this kind of thing. But once you start down this
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  track, you will see you start down this path.
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  You will see the rules starting to change, things will starting
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  to be relaxed, and they'll say they'll start to make exceptions
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  for everything. Oh, well, this person has some
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  serious, serious mental health conditions.
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  So we should make an exception just this once.
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  Oh, well, maybe, maybe we'll make it as soon as you set that
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  precedent. I'll maybe we should make that
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  exception again. Oh, let's just make that
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  exception all the time. Well, this is just the norm now,
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  so let's just this is the slippery slope to see what it
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  says here. The Netherlands became the first
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  country in the world to make assisted suicide legal, and this
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  was in 2001. They were the first one.
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  If we can't look at what's happening now in the
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  Netherlands, well then we're lot Dumber than I thought.
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  Since then, it's become an increasingly popular option.
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  A popular option. In 2022 there were 8720
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  euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands, representing
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  roughly 5%, 5% of all the countries deaths, and now from
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  4% the year before. In February, the 93 year old
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  former Dutch Prime Minister and his wife were euthanised.
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  How the heck does that happen? So now it's 5% represents 5% of
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  the country's debts. Euthanasia.
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  And that's not a slippery slope. Critics of suicide criticised
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  suicide legislation. Sorry, legalisation say that
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  people like to beak have been encouraged to kill themselves by
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  the law, with some likening the suicide surge to a contagion.
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  So Zarya, when she was speaking to the original media choice,
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  the media outlet Zarya said it was an honour for me to provide
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  insights to people who are open to learning something, open to
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  learning something. You've gotta go back to this.
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  Like I said, if this isn't an argument supporting if this is
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  if this is an example that supports the slippery slope
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  argument. They legalised assisted suicide
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  in 2001 and since then increasingly popular 8720 deaths
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  in the Netherlands in 2022 and 5%, roughly 5% of the country's
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  deaths. And they had gone up from 4% the
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  year before. If this isn't an example, if
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  this doesn't support the slippery slope argument, well,
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  what does? Australia has started down this
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  path. I guarantee you.
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  We're going to see, we're going to see our statistics go up
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  dramatically over the next 5 to 10 years.
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  And are we? Are we Australians all going to
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  be, you know, sitting there pertaining to pretending to be
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  shocked when we start seeing people say, well, I'm suffering
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  from mental health issues, so I want to, I want to be able to
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  kill myself legally. I want to be able to commit
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  suicide in legal fashion. I want the government to help,
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  to support me in this we this is the path we started down and is
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  is it too late for us? When you start down this path of
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  helping people to die, helping people to kill themselves and
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  making it legal, it is going to culminate in dramatic
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  consequences, drastic consequences.
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  That's all it's going to do. We're going to we've gone from
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  this oht Yeah. If you've got 6 to 12 months to
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  live voluntary assisted dying, you're allowed to do that and
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  soon. How how long is it going to take
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  before we start hearing people say, well I've got mental health
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  conditions I just don't want to live anymore.
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  So can I just, can you just provide the provide the tablets
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  and the doctor and allow me to kill myself as well?
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  That's where we're going. This is the slippery slope.
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  And yet we Australians, our country, our government, none of
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  them have been smart enough to look at other nations that have
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  done this and say, hey, maybe, maybe this was not a good idea.
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  When 5% of your deaths in one year, close to five percents of
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  percent of your deaths in one year, are suicide, you think
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  maybe someone would be, would be sitting there going, maybe we
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  have a problem here. Maybe euthanasia is not good,
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  maybe it's not. Maybe it's not the best way to
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  go. Here in Australia we have a
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  government that is just out to kill its own people.
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  They have in every state. I think it now has abortion,
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  which is allowed up till birth, and now we're allowed to kill
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  ourselves if supposedly if we're if we're dying anyway.
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  But as you can see, it hasn't helped the Netherlands.
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  They just keep changing the laws, making it easier, relaxing
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  the laws, and pretty soon you've got 5% of your population
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  killing themselves. This is the slippery slope.
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  Let me know what you think. My name's Jay Fallon.
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  All I can say is the Netherlands needs Jesus.
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  Thanks for listening to the slippery slope they just feel.