Send us a text A single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that framing means in practice, why euphemisms matter, and how policy teaches culture what to accept as normal. We unpack the promised safeguards—adul...
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Send us a text A single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that framing means in practice, why euphemisms matter, and how policy teaches culture what to accept as normal. We unpack the promised safeguards—adul...
Send us a text A headline said the quiet part wrong: a former Navy combat pilot and astronaut under investigation for “serious misconduct” because he affirmed the most basic military truth—refuse unlawful orders. We zoom out from the hot takes and lay down the actual hierarchy every recruit learns: Constitution, law, mission, order. When number four violates one through three, refusal isn’t insubordination. It’s duty. We walk through the law that backs it—Article 92 of the UCMJ, the legacy o...
The Darrell McClain show
Send us a text A single week can redraw moral boundaries. When New York and Illinois announced support for “Medical Aid in Dying,” the language sounded compassionate, but the shift was seismic: freedom recast as control over life’s endpoint, medicine repositioned to facilitate death, and “autonomy” installed as the supreme value. We trace what that framing means in practice, why euphemisms matter, and how policy teaches culture what to accept as normal. We unpack the promised safeguards—adul...
