In re Alfie Evans: we do not give parents the right to decide for their children because they always make the correct choice. We give them that right because they care more about the child's welfare than the experts do.
Some parents demonstrate that they don't care, and in that case, a court properly intervenes. But we should always err on the side of the parents and family, because none of us wants our fate decided by a disinterested expert. We want it decided by people who love us.
And also because killing someone's child is the worst thing you can do to a human being. The state should not do that to people who will have to live with the agony of watching their child killed in front of them by "disinterested experts".
Especially not if you want them to continue trusting the experts to make decisions about other parts of their lives.
The end result of what Britain is doing to Alfie Evans is a violation of the child/parent bond, and a diminution of trust in the system. Neither of these are good results.
