"Mercy Killings" I believe are also an attack on basic bourgeois democratic rights. To be able to kill someone for their disability without their consent would violate "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" (especially life). "Mercy killings" are based on the concept that certain people are not worthy of life which violates the natural rights of the French Revolution of "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity" (especially equality).
As Thomas Jefferson stated in the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths as evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (Mind you, we will have to pardon him men and the creator for the sake of the statement).
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