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Monday, 6 June 2011

¶ There is nothing like “moral peril” to get Ross Douthat worked up — so worked up that his brain shuts down. His snarky eulogy-not of Dr Jack Kervorkian is a classic of slippery-slope shivers. While we would do anything to prevent rash and violent acts of self-destruction, we want to know what right anyone has to prevent the deliberate suicide of another.