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...Many Americans hold that certain forms of human commodification, such as organ sales, should be illegal on the grounds that they violate human dignity. Even if we accept this idea of dignity—which is somehow desecrated by the sale but not the donation of kidneys, and which applies to these organs but not the other aforementioned body parts—is the preservation of this abstract idea worth restricting a person’s control over his or her body and putting another person’s life at risk? We must base the law, not on these...
...advocated in this treaty will lead in my opinion to the further democratization of Europe. I do not share the belief, however, that if Ireland should by way of referendum decide not to vote in favour of the treaty, thereby being the only country in the Union not to accept the treaty, that this is the end of the European experiment. If this should happen I forecast delay, deliberation, bargaining and compromise as these have been the tools which have always been employed in times of difficulty in order to find the basis for agreement at a later stage...
...want to end the great moral shame of America - the 37 million Americans who are denied economic justice in our country - then we need to ask the most basic question: why? Not why are "they" struggling every day, but why do we accept things as they...
...accept that the waitress who just brought us lunch needs the church's food pantry to feed her daughter for the rest of the month? She's working and that should be enough...
...accept that the man who just bagged our groceries is 72 years old and lost everything when his wife got sick? He's worked all of his life and retirement shouldn't mean more work...