NYT Mag: Harriet McBryde Johnson vs. Singer

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Tue Feb 18 21:45:29 PST 2003


Yoshie wrote:


> ***** A philosophy professor says, ''It appears that your
> objections to assisted suicide are essentially tactical.''
>
> ''Excuse me?''
>
> ''By that I mean they are grounded in current conditions of
> political, social and economic inequality. What if we assume that
> such conditions do not exist?''
>
> ''Why would we want to do that?''
>
> ''I want to get to the real basis for the position you take.''
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/magazine/16DISABLED.html> *****
> --
> Yoshie

Are we to assume that, come the revolution, your opposition to assisted suicide would remain?

-- Luke



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