"Evolving Standards of Decency". Kristol has a point. We care more about an intentional murderer than we do about a helpless person who never committed a crime. We will not even afford her the same consideration in execution that we do mass murderers. It would be better to let them die by starvation and dehydration. After all, we are told that it is painless and one simply drifts off into a euphoric state.
We care more about whales, dolphins, alligators and other animals than we do about humans. We will bend heaven and earth to save a whale that beaches itself. On evidence to the contrary, we push for a ban on DDT, which could save the lives of millions of children, women and men from death by malaria, based on phony evidence that we might save animals. Our unelected masters (the judiciary), our hired masters (the buraucracy) and our elected masters see to that.
Maybe it's time, as M. Schiavo's attorney said, to reflect. Our priorities seem to be a bit skewed.
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