This is unadulterated bullshit. Sure, perhaps in some ideal world, where all people are rational and all systems are frictionless, "the process could have been much less cruel". It's bullshit in Frankfurt's sense because it's not quite a lie and it's not quite the truth. And given your (EricC) ability to think clearly and pay attention to detail, we can only assume you *know* it's bullshit.
If it could have been much less cruel, then please suggest the concrete modifications to the current byzantine set of laws, P&Ps, cultural norms, agency recommendations, political forces, etc. that would get us from here to there. (Not the impractical nonsense in your bullets like patients' family members prescribing meds that nurses will administer. Really? Sheesh.) If you cannot get us, practically, from where we are now to that less cruel place, then you're just blowing idealist smoke. On 12/27/21 09:18, Eric Charles wrote:
Even if, by the time the story starts, he was going to die no matter what happened, the process by which that happened could have been much less cruel.
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