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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (13878)	2/3/2010 2:53:27 PM
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Swan, an individual's morality is, of course, the individual's decision. How could it be otherwise? I would never challenge any individual's right to opinions and beliefs. But the collective morality (which in democracies transforms into law through the political process) is the issue. It is to the law that I speak: not individual beliefs. Historically laws have been in a state of constant flux. Some northern indigenous people have a lovely tradition wherein elder members of a community may elect to simply float away on ice flow, for a dignified death of their own choosing. Such thinking - with its cousin euthanasia - is deplored by many on the basis of beliefs and statements by multiple prophets of multiple gods. How do we square that circle? Yes, there are difficult decisions to be made. But humans are fallible creatures, and do not gain omniscience from prophets of imagined gods. I reject their absolutism: the elitism of belief; I argue for a society of prevention and compassion. Jim

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