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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

On Torture And The Terri Schiavo Legacy

MaxedOutMama has a post Terri Schiavo piece. It is a long post, to be sure and there are a lot of links. We urge you to follow through and read this post and the relevant links.

MaxedOutMama's piece will no doubt cloud the issue even more- and we think that is a good thing. We need to talk about life and the value of life. We are not talking about quality of life issues- those are matters best left up to family members and put in writing. Instead, we are encouraging the discussion of what life means to us a society, culture and most importantly, how we measure the meaing of life.

As is always the case, MaxedOutMama discusses the issues with passion and logic, and with a certain authority.

We are not unaware of the irony that this post follows our discussion of torture.

The irony is the connection.