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The Nation, oldest progressive newspaper in the US, doesn't pull any punches
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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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its one of those "I don't know where the line is but I know it when I see it" things, but with some easy math. Given our rights should stop only when it can risk someone else's life or liberty, does the speech in question go past that?
How do we adjust our thinking for hundreds of million people; for resources and concerns that go beyond personal obligations under the social contract; for protecting things we need 3 generations from now?
It falls apart without handoff to some kind of ethical framework and a team of elders to review cases against it and evolve that framework -- and look how easy it was to subvert America's legal elders in just a decade.
But will even that decide whether there's a difference between a zygote and a tumour? Will it prioritize the person or what may one day become one? Will it take responsibility for dying in a controlled fashion when there is no future due to terminal illness, a non-viable body or an unredeemable crime?