The NewBostonPost recently ran a fine editorial by John Peteet, a medical doctor who expressed concern about the proposal to legalize assisted suicide in the commonwealth. His concern is warranted. Substantial evidence has now accumulated to show that legalizing assisted suicide corrupts the medical profession (see, for example, this, this, and this). This is all quite predictable given what we know from moral philosophy about the nature of human choice and action. As I have explained elsewhere:
It is the choosing of death, acting with a purpose that death will result, that is morally problematic. Death is not something to be chosen, least of all by doctors. A physician who adopts the death of her patient as the purpose for her action has become a different kind of physician. Indeed, she has become a different kind of person. She has become a person who chooses death over life.
A person who purposely chooses to cause death, who makes death a reason for his actions, is not oriented toward the good. This is because choosing has a creative, self-making significance. To adopt by free choice a reason for one's action is to make that reason part of one's projects and commitments. By choosing life, one becomes a person oriented toward life. By choosing death, one becomes a person oriented toward death.
My previous posting painted a broad brush portrait of Bill and Hillary Clinton's modus operandi. It showed how they amassed a fortune of more than $100 million between 2001 and 2012, and solicited donations to the Clinton Foundation to further their political and financial goals, and their use of political power and connections to effect U.S. policy, which enriched their friends and donors. In this piece, we will focus on the details of one of the Clinton's most shameful transactions which illustrated this corrupt pattern of self-enrichment, influence-peddling and using their power to help their friends achieve their goals. All of the details below emanate from Peter Schweizer's masterful book, "Clinton Cash," which has more than 50 pages of footnotes backing up his work.
