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When someone mentions the sanctity of life, I look at the world around me and shake my head, for it does not exist in our treatment of what sustains us all. Until it does, until the sanctity of life is reflected in our practices towards that which sustains us, we will not, as a species entirely grasp the "logic of moral interest" nor the compassion and empathy necessary to sustain the cost of educating those who will return very little of our investment. I do not know for how long we can afford the costs of sheltering those in a perpetual state of dependency. And if the numbers grow as some predict, the fall out from our years of exhibiting our lack of regard for the sanctity of life, the drain to our society becomes even more acute. The question for me is how much of this drain of human potential can we afford?

: -- Paula McMinn, Adj. English--Heritage College (posted 3/13, 10:34 a.m., E.S.T.)

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