by Daniel A. Kaufman “The most disturbing aspect of ‘morality’ seems to me to be the frequency with which the word now appears; in the press, on television, in the most perfunctory kinds of conversation… There is something quite facile going on, some self-indulgence at work. Of course we would all like to ‘believe’ in … Continue reading Everyone has moral obligations (And we’re talking about them way too much)
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Yes, terminal patients still have moral obligations
by Daniel Tippens [This is the first of two essays, by Dan Tippens and Dan Kaufman, about the concept of moral obligations. Kaufman’s response to Tippens will appear later this week.] When I was eighteen, my father was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given a year and a half to live. This prognosis was … Continue reading Yes, terminal patients still have moral obligations
