Att vara är att vilja

I The Weekly Standard skriver Eric Cohen en spännande artikel om hur liberalismen misslyckades med att stå upp för Terri Schiavo (nu avliden, länktips OpinionJournal). Han skriver:

Treating autonomy as an absolute makes a person’s dignity turn entirely on his or her capacity to act autonomously. It leads to the view that only those with the ability to express their will possess any dignity at all–everyone else is ”life unworthy of life.”

This is what ideological liberalism now seems to believe–whether in regard to early human embryos, or late-stage dementia patients, or fetuses with Down syndrome. And in the end, the Schiavo case is just one more act in modern liberalism’s betrayal of the vulnerable people it once claimed to speak for.

Eric Cohen är redaktör på tidskriften The New Atlantis.