06-14-2016, 11:56 PM
Medical innovations can in theory lengthen lifespans and improve the quality of life for people with degenerative diseases that can seriously debase life and impose great costs of custodial care. Such could ensure that some people live longer, productive, and more satisfying lives.
Some medical innovations could in practice allow people to remain active in the cultural, educational, and political scene longer.
Some medical innovations could in practice allow people to remain active in the cultural, educational, and political scene longer.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.