When the Useful is the Good

"Death with dignity" is the gleaming white shroud on the rotting corpse of societal fear, self-interest and ruthless self-preservation.
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We are blind to the horrendous consequences of our wrong decisions, but see infinite visions of hope for their benefits.
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Reason of itself is morally neutral; it can kill children or discover cures for their suffering and disease. Reason tempered by humility, faith, and guidance by higher moral principles has enormous potential for good - and without such restraints, enormous potential for evil.

From a remarkable essay by the Doctor is In, called The Children Whom Reason Scorns about a civilized European country that measures lives by their utility following the Groningen Protocol.

Via The American Digest who reflects on the Atlantis in Orbit and meditates on a Goya engraving entitled, "The sleep of reason breeds monsters."  On Advent: "We Are All Lying in the Mud, but Some of Us are Looking at the Stars.