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...
Who Gets Protected When No One Can Defend Themselves?
The Darrell McClain show
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1 month ago
Who Gets Protected When No One Can Defend Themselves?
Send us a text Some rules sound perfect until they meet real life. Zero tolerance promises order and fairness at work, but what happens when a punch lands, security is minutes away, and your kids still need you home tonight? We pull this apart with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and military veteran whose day job straddles IT, investigations, and loss prevention. Together we stress-test the policy from both sides: the case for clear rules that protect non-fighters, and the case for proporti...
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...
