==Institutional Medicine & its History of Violence Against Free Will
Today, the Orthodox on the Old Church calendar commemorate the Sixth Ecumenical Council, which was the Third Council of Constantinople in 681. This council condemned the heresy known as Monothelitism, which argued that Christ has one will because He is one person, even though He is a person with two natures. The council, however, concluded with the Orthodox position that, as one person with two natures, Christ has two wills: a divine will and a human will. Not only does this distinction have important theological implications, it has important anthropological implications. The most relevant one to this crowd would be the belief that free will is intrinsic to human nature.
A lack of informed consent is a violation of free will. While a lack of consent is the fundamental difference between rape and a lawful union, statutory rape is also a violation of free will because a minor’s lack of maturity prevents any supposed consent from being informed.
Drugs like Midazolam (aka Versed) are useful in procedures like endoscopy of the upper gastrointestinal tract. However, it has also be used to violate a person’s free will, such as in allowing medical students to practice their gynecology skills on a live subject before she undergoes the procedure she actually consented to. Versed is also used to ensure consent isn’t withdrawn at the last moment of voluntary euthanasia (aka physician-assisted suicide) and can make execution by lethal injection easier to watch. Versed allows the condemned prisoner to remain conscious during the administration of the other drugs that can cause extreme pain and panic, which makes an execution even more unpleasant to watch.
Versed is now used in the treatment of viral and bacterial respiratory infections… or rather, to help avoid treating viral and bacterial respiratory infections and have the patient consent, without free will, to being put on a ventilator so the untreated respiratory infection has a better chance of killing the person.
https://rumble.com/vu5mp1-2022-02-05-free-will-not-on-the-ledge.html
https://cyberianorthodox.wordpress.com/2022/02/05/free-will-not-on-the-ledge/