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Tuesday, December 26, 2006"If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here. What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. "Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust." A century and half later and we still pronounce on the "too much life" among the less fortunate. We're no better than the Victorians. We've just shifted our disdain to the severely disabled and defenseless. posted by Sydney on 12/26/2006 08:21:00 AM 4 comments 4 Comments:Always ironic to see a tort reformer waxing poetic on the plight of the weak. By 1:57 PM , at
I believe in tort reform, not tort abolition. The problem with our tort system is that it's used by trial lawyers from a position of strength to enrich themselves.
Tort reform, in all its current forms, is designed to do nothing more than keep the individual victims from recovering. Show me a proposal that does anything otherwise and I'll be glad to discuss it. By 9:54 PM , at
Interesting use of this quotation - I've just seen yet another piece about suggestions that the NHS should ration healthcare to smokers or obese patients who default on lifestyle contracts to change their behaviour. |
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