You did WHAT? You invited the Cheneys? Oh, Jesus. I didn’t mean … I hate that guy. I mean, I guess they won’t come, because they spend Thanksgiving on their ranch in Wyoming, stamping on the heads of baby turkeys and drinking crude oil, but… jeez. Just don’t ever do that again, OK? Dad
How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting place as a prolific, provincial Nazi hack?
In other words, it’s possible that addiction to painkillers is not only NOT a moral failing of the patient, but is unavoidable. Until recently, we just haven’t understood what we were dealing with, and, in typical Western puritanical tradition, we’ve blamed the victim and hobbled the healers.