The most disheartening aspect of the entire event was not that a three-sided coin - Schiavo's staggering hypocrisy / Greer's judicial arrogance / the self-righteousness of both - was minted from the ore of human fallibility, but that no one with the authority to do so could manage to find the testicles to blast it from the sky once it was tossed into the ethical air and so save an innocent woman's life.
I'm tryin'! Thanks so much.
I'm astounded that there were no heroes, no one who did the right thing, regardless of the consequences.
But, I'm horrified that the representatives of the Judiciary were more interested in a turf war than in reviewing the case.
And I'm afraid that the most telling facts are that there were so few comments on the justification that "Terri was never going to get better." And that noone saw the ethical landmarks of the medical intervention to remove the tube and the illegal order refusing natural means of intake for what they were.
These last points indicate a total lack of rational thought in the public discourse - a lack of the basic concepts themselves, much less an understanding of the concepts.
Were we all caught up in the circus and bread, so the best minds never noticed the illegal order of March 8th?