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What became readily apparent during the debate was the Objectivist's reliance on morally arbitrary and meaningless facts. For example, a person is to be left to die because one was born impoverished, and thus can contribute nothing to society, despite the fact that they had no control over the circumstances of their birth. And they consistenly ignore the fact that, while, say, Michael Jordan (to use an example from Prof. Sandel's Justice lectures) did work very hard to utilize his talents for basketball, those talents would have been all for naught without the City of Chicage (a government...
...President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young, and leave a memory that time can transform into gaudy myth...
Your article was "infotaining," but every one of us will still die one day. In America, surrounded by distortions of death, we need help coping with that reality. Facing old age, sickness and death prompted the Buddha to seek enlightenment. We can live and die expressing the best qualities of our humanity, but seeking to be forever young isn't likely to produce that result. KEN MEECE, Director St. Joseph Health System Eureka, California Via E-mail...
With all the debates and rantings about Medicare during the past year, why in heaven's name would scientists want to create a world with even more old people? I think part of the reason we get old and die is so we can make room for all the babies being born. BENJAMIN DAHLBECK Chicago...
...this point, a line from an old Depeche Mode song popped into my head: "Well I don't want to start any blasphemous rumors/but I think that god has a sick sense of humor/and when I die I expect to find him laughing...