Alfie Evans and the end of the myth of the UK as a free country.

[Husar]

Did it now? How is it you know. Were you in court? Can you speak to the emotional state of the father also? Was it frustration, resignation, PTSD, not wanting more turmoil that made the change.
What made him drop the suit? Money, legal advice, perhaps remorse.

Are you familiar with expert testimony? Are you a parent? Ever lost a child or had one that was comatose? Ever had medical advice telling you to abandon all hope?

As the father said, the condition wasn’t even diagnosed. Do you think they were entitled even to seek that, particularly if they hoped to have more children?

Was it doctors who stood in the way or was it the bureaucrats? Do you know anything about the stages of grief?

It is obvious you are not an empath. You have no understanding of the ordeal this young couple has been through and I sincerely hope you never will.

Government at any level inserting its self at such a time shows a callous disregard for human decency. What would have it mattered to them had the child lived a few days or a few weeks longer. If the child were “brain dead” then how was it torture to the child? It seems a foolish excuse to exercise power.

I'm not the one accusing people with a very broad brush...
You can spare yourself the comments about my empathy, I never said I blame the parents, but that doesn't mean I have to rationally agree with their every move just because my feelings say so. Are you advocating we base all our laws on who has the strongest feelings about something? Bring back family feuds, revenge killings and witch burnings?