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Some inevitably find this risk too high and cite it in opposing voluntary PRAs. But this is a false argument because nobody who finds PRAs too risky is forced to choose them. Only those who want to accept more risk for more return will choose PRAs, and it should not be government’s role to prohibit that they...
...swift. Even as the U.S. continued its great debate over when to remove a feeding tube, the Vatican revealed the Pope was on one. Terri Schiavo, once a private, ordinary woman, had no choice about whether her death would be a passion play for an audience caught in an argument over when life begins and ends. The Pope, a very public and extraordinary man, made sure his message was clear: that life is God's alone to give--and to take...
Some opponents of assisted suicide answer such despair with an argument that is insightful or cunningly circular, depending on your view, insisting that patients like Sullivan are depressed, and as such, don't qualify for suicide medication under the law. "If they are demoralized, we should take care of them, not overdose them," says Portland psychiatrist Gregory Hamilton. But the line between clinical and situational depression often gets blurred. "One doctor told me to take two antidepressants so I could have a Pollyanna attitude," Sullivan scoffs...
Having played with her for over 10 years, Banfield doesn’t buy that argument...
...then, is Harvard even considering Yale-style housing? The main argument is that Yale-style housing would improve the currently deplorable first-year advising system at the College. Yale-style housing would also, theoretically, improve first-year social life by allowing freshman more access to their upperclassmen peers...