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Environmental protection has historically not been associated with mass murder. Euthanasia on the other hand has been associated with mass murder. In some countries, Germany for instance, the word euthanasia itself is so dirty that no politician dare even hint at it when designing policy, and that's excluding medical policy.
While that may be true, it doesn't preclude the idea that euthanasia may be the best solution to a person's problems.
I can both hate school shootings and believe that individuals have the right to own weapons.
Also, If you look at the history, the reason suicide is so hated is that the Church realized that the people who wanted to kill themselves were young women who didn't want to marry old men and young men who didn't want to have to work forever.
It wasn't a 'pro life' policy, it was a 'make sure these kids provide us with what we want.'
You are talking about decisions where there is consent from the affected party and cases that don't correlate too well (guns and school shooting example, where there exist gun liberal nations that have relatively low rates of school shootings). A child cannot possibly consent to nor understand medical suicide. It's not a dichotomy where it's equally horrific that a child isn't able to consent to a continued life (while suffering in some way) , because once euthanasia for a child is chosen, it is permanent, as opposed to the decision to keep a child alive not being permanent.
Suicide is hated because a lot of the time the person committing suicide regrets it the second they do it. Suicide is hated because life is the purpose of every living being, on some logical level it doesn't compute. Suicide is also hated because it affects people of worse socioeconomic standing to a greater degree than people who are in a comfortable spot. The are of course exceptions with cases of severe illness, but they require a sound grown up mind!
Parents make decisions for children all the time.
Yes, and that is highly traumatic for children. Child rearing being an atomised, personalised thing of the direct relatives is not a historical constant. More communal forms of raising children have exist and will exist.