Until quite recently, few had the privilege of pondering whether to have children, or why. It was just one of those things that happen. For anyone now weighing the pros and cons, the reasons considered can be as agonizing as they are boringly banal for anyone else. Can I afford it? Do I owe it to my parents to “give” them a…
Ronald de Sousa
Ronald de Sousa is a professor emeritus of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
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A Master Thinker’s Thoughts
A disciple of the Canadian Catholic philosopher Bernard Lonergan takes on assisted suicide June 2005
The pathetic case of Terry Schiavo, in which the shameless posturing of politicians obscured the serious moral and medical issues involved, has recently revived the ever-simmering debate over euthanasia and assisted suicide. In Canada, that debate burned brightly in 1993, when the Supreme Court of Canada refused to recognize the right of Sue Rodriguez to choose a time for her death beyond the stage when she could kill herself without…
In Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, the Catholic blames the Pope for his excessive progeny. The Protestant congratulates himself on being free to put, instead, a little rubber thing on the end of his John Thomas. That, he declares, is what being a Protestant is all about.
The Pope is right about the little rubber things: they are against…