The Hermanson
The Hermanson´s case
The case of the Hermanson, whose seven year-old daughter died of diabetes because they decided she would not use medical treatment and instead they opted for Christian Scientists, is a controversial situation in which many people can take different sides. They were took to court and sentenced guilty. The judgment that they received in my opinion was unfair and the case should have been managed differently.
I do not practice a religion with that kinds of beliefs that involves medicine and faith, and for many people find it hard to understand that kind of determination and confidences to religion that would never do something that contradicts her beliefs, the Hermanson loved their daughter, also they had this belief, and with it, they did what they thought that could save her, maybe this Christian methods were not infallible, but neither is traditional medicine, both have their risks and people that choose one of these they will have to live with the consequences, but it doesn’t turn them into criminals.
It’s a tough case to judge when religion is in the way, judging parental care is no easy, is it possible, or furthermore, could it be sociably accepted that love for ‘God’ would at all time be bigger than anything else, but it does not mean that the parent’s love was not there. Around the world there are thousands of people taking tough decisions that involve their families lifes, risking or not a brother to a long and painful treatment for the chance to save him from a disease or keep turned on or not the machines that kept alive your parents knowing that they are never going to wake, decisions that are not treated like crimes because people have the right of do for their families what they think is best for them and this is what the Hermason’s couple did
From my point of view people have the right to have their own beliefs and practice them, which is part of our right of free will, obviously as long as they don’t harm other person’s rights.
The case of the Hermanson, whose seven year-old daughter died of diabetes because they decided she would not use medical treatment and instead they opted for Christian Scientists, is a controversial situation in which many people can take different sides. They were took to court and sentenced guilty. The judgment that they received in my opinion was unfair and the case should have been managed differently.
I do not practice a religion with that kinds of beliefs that involves medicine and faith, and for many people find it hard to understand that kind of determination and confidences to religion that would never do something that contradicts her beliefs, the Hermanson loved their daughter, also they had this belief, and with it, they did what they thought that could save her, maybe this Christian methods were not infallible, but neither is traditional medicine, both have their risks and people that choose one of these they will have to live with the consequences, but it doesn’t turn them into criminals.
It’s a tough case to judge when religion is in the way, judging parental care is no easy, is it possible, or furthermore, could it be sociably accepted that love for ‘God’ would at all time be bigger than anything else, but it does not mean that the parent’s love was not there. Around the world there are thousands of people taking tough decisions that involve their families lifes, risking or not a brother to a long and painful treatment for the chance to save him from a disease or keep turned on or not the machines that kept alive your parents knowing that they are never going to wake, decisions that are not treated like crimes because people have the right of do for their families what they think is best for them and this is what the Hermason’s couple did
From my point of view people have the right to have their own beliefs and practice them, which is part of our right of free will, obviously as long as they don’t harm other person’s rights.