Word: painless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make these points consider the arguments against a system for punishing the innocent when this would maximize the sum of advantages, or for sneaking up on and killing lingering, seriously ill people in a painless way which they did not expect, thus sparing them even the pains of anticipation. The arguments against these have to do with the notion that it would violate the rights of those individuals. It violates their rights because they are rational beings who are capable of forming judgments about right and wrong actions. Consequently it would be necessary either to deceive them about our general...
...judgment excludes this policy. However, it would not exclude it in respect to a brute animal, since the brute animal is capable of suffering but not of forming judgments about moral rightness and wrongness. The need and indeed possibility of putting forward arguments and explaining our policy of painless killing does not arise, and therefore whatever rights a brute animal has are not implicated in this way. It does seem, however, that a brute animal does have rights to be spared suffering, and that these rights are its claim and not just the claim of the abstract ideal of minimizing...
...forward more to provoke public outcry than as a concrete proposal. At the same time, it understandably put a wistful thought into the minds of the moderate Tory establishment: Wouldn't it be nice if the Monday Club could somehow be disposed of with equally quick and painless dispatch? The club, however, shows no signs of going away. As a party within a party and a kind of Loyal Opposition of the right, it represents a genuine strain of conservative opinion, with the active support, nationwide, of at least 7,000 zealots...
...entrance of the morning sun into the room is as quet as painless death. She kneels. Each morning upon rising she kneels where she can see the cross above her small bed, and the thin stream of sunlight through the ugly torn shade. These morning prayers are different from her prayers before retiring, the light is different. At night pale neon flickers into the room and illuminates the Ghost...
...allow special income tax deductions for Social Security taxes paid by the working poor. No serious revision of the present system is likely, however, as long as workers continue to swallow big tax increases without grumbling. While that situation lasts, it presents Congress and the President with a politically painless way of helping finance deficits in the non-Social Security part of the federal budget. The Social Security Administration is collecting more in taxes than it is paying out in benefits, accumulating a "trust fund" that bulges with $40 billion. By law, that money must be invested in Government bonds...