Re: (TV) On a minor note...

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 5:51 PM -0400 6/10/04, Emilie T. Hsu wrote:
> maybe some of those people actually think that life on medication is 
> just not worth living.  How can we cast them any stone?  And why 
> should we, we don't live their lives, if it's a crappy life, why 
> should they be marginalized for making a rational choice?

"And what is good, Phaedrus? And what is not good? Need we ask anyone 
to tell us these things?"

Maybe we do.  It's impossible to know with absolute certainty and 
completeness what another person's going through.  The evidence from 
my own experience, though, suggests that none of us know what's 
coming, and to assume that it will inevitably be the worst we can 
imagine is just as much of a fallacy as assuming it will be the best.

I think of the smartest person I've ever known well.  Had he hung on 
for a couple of more years, he would quite possibly have received a 
lot of validation, been seen as a valuable contributor to the world, 
and been in the first or second wave of Internet zillionaires.  Maybe 
not easily, and maybe not top-tier, but he would have fit into that 
historical moment amazingly well.  In 1992, though, who would have 
seen it coming?  He certainly couldn't.  I can't know how his 
decision might have been different if he had known, or at least 
thought of the possibility.

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Maurice Rickard
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