Month: June 2009

• Healthcare is Frankenstein

  Healthcare is an almost unique combination: once a technology is invented, it must be used.  The physician has no morally acceptable — or legally tenable — ground upon which to say no.   So, every available technology must be offered to every patient.   

• All. Governments. Will. Torture.

  No democratic state will take a course that opposes the moral consensus of her people.  This may seem like a tautology to you, but a surprising number of people — and pundits — think that one function of the apparatus of policy is to keep a country on a certain moral track, which it might…

• Cultural Diversity As Powder Keg

  There are substances that cannot mingle without exploding.   There are forces that cannot mingle but in a tornado.  Two such forces, in the Western democracies, are so-called cultural diversity, and centralized governments.   These inevitably explode in violence. “Cultural diversity” is the opiate, the mantra to certain minds.   It evokes visions of rainbows.…