If you were fully Modern and truly believed that Nature and Darwin and Evolution had revealed the inevitability of the strong replacing the weak and the big the small, then can it ever be said that you murdered the small and the weak ?
Weren't you simply tugging gently, tenderly, at their ankles, to hasten a merciful end, at a hanging that Mother Nature herself had ordained ?
Shouldn't you be thanked by their families , not despised ?
And why drag the Devil and the whole question of morality and evil into this : aren't we just talking about speeding up a scientific inevitability ?
Weren't most of the war deaths of the 20th century not military deaths at all but rather medicalized violence : death as therapy and death as mercy killings ?
Weren't you simply tugging gently, tenderly, at their ankles, to hasten a merciful end, at a hanging that Mother Nature herself had ordained ?
Shouldn't you be thanked by their families , not despised ?
being Modern means never saying "The Devil Made Me Do It"
And why drag the Devil and the whole question of morality and evil into this : aren't we just talking about speeding up a scientific inevitability ?
Weren't most of the war deaths of the 20th century not military deaths at all but rather medicalized violence : death as therapy and death as mercy killings ?
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