Look at how disgruntled this person sounds about simply letting the kid go home

It's their kid

For the love of God

and how he wants them guarded by the police so they can't leave the country to go to another hostpital

@Fulcrum010

It's not government property

Are you fucking retarded?

@franti
Oh, this guy lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhANOfLbDc

What is the government's justification for doing that?

I really cannot see one

I'm just entirely baffled as to what basis they claim to have for essentially repossessing a child they said was not worth saving.

They have no official statement on the matter?

This seems like such a massive public relations failure that they'd HAVE to have something.

The British government went insane

Completely insane

Apart from the NHS being upset they spent taxmoney keeping the kid alive for a year and now the parents want to go elsewhere once the hospital decided to pull the plug

I know that, but they've still got a few neurons to rub together

Reportedly it's because they actually want the kid to die because

1) the kid is braindead
2) the kid should not be allowed to live because he is suffering pain

Which... is an interesting combination

I legitimately do not believe they are just doing this with no justification, SOMEONE in the government would have said "hey, have we made a press release or something explaining our position?"

I get their argument about it not being cost efficient to spend state money on a lost cause, but the second one isn't something that governments usually give a shit about

```O’Sullivan, who is British, points out that in the UK, The NHS and the UK courts have declared that his is a life unworthy of life.```

Like, that's not their territory

I thought euthanasia was illegal, but there y'go

```Before the removal of the ventilator people began praying for Alfie to breathe on his own.

The physicians said he would suffocate in 15 minutes. He lasted 12 hours. At which point, the physician at Alder Hey were forced to restore ventilation and hydration.```

Statists are probably going to dismiss people who want to keep Alfie alive as religious kooks

And there certainly are plenty of people doing the whole 'it's a miracle' thing

But that's irrelevant anyway

Because the parents *should be allowed to take their kid elsewhere for treatment by another facility that is willing to provide it*

They're doing the complete *opposite* of child abuse and the state is still intervening

Yeah, that's the point where they objectively have no legal right to intervene

If they were serious about their argument that its not cost effective to keep him alive, have the parents reimburse the government. That'd be shitty, but still less inconsistent and absurd than what they're doing now

"kill the boy"

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The only arguments I'm seeing are that the kid is already dead because he's in a "semi-vegatative state"

But I don't see how this stacks up with "do not allow the parents to take their own child out of the hospital"

Yeah, all the arguments they're making are inconsistent and have completely changed over time

There has to be more going on with this

Its too stupid in too many ways to be explained solely by bureaucracy

That's literally the case