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and the final report recommended creating a separate offence of “compassionate homicide” with less severe penalty.

Recognising the role of moral luck encourages empathy and humility, but it also threatens the notions of culpability that help us to make sense of evil.

In their exegesis of Genesis, these thinkers rendered any expression of human sexuality as problematic. It was not a question of more or less, appropriate or inappropriate sex. It was between a No and a Yes to sex, in which the Yes, even when licensed by marriage, was seen as the lesser of two evils, a concession to human weakness.

People are not monads. A real, live human self is always already partial to certain, select others. Morality needs to take this essential fact about human selfhood into account rather than pretend to override it.

futurity:

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Medical authors Atul Gawande and David Kuhl have both written beautiful books about death and the experience of dying patients. B. J. Miller, of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, gives a truly magnificent TED talk on the subject. These and many others wish to bring a more humanistic perspective to the treatment of the dying. They warn of