PeaceBang
The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather. Blogging about Unitarian Universalism, UU Christian spiritual practice, occasional cultural and political ravings, and the inner life of ministry. PeaceBang is the alter ego of a small town pastor serving an historic New England Unitarian Universalist congregation.
Best Possible Care?
March 13, 2006 on 9:08 pm | In Uncategorized |I just heard a report on NPR that some people are wondering whether or not Slobodan Milosevic got “the best possible care” while he was in prison awaiting the verdict on his war crimes trial.
I have to wonder why you deserve “the best possible care” when you’re a marauding savage. I should think that being fed and sheltered and kept safe from the people who want to chop you into tiny pieces and make you into shark chum would be an acceptable level of care.
I’m sorry, but learning that an 8-hour autopsy determined that Milosevic had an unexplained antibiotic in his system doesn’t exactly alarm me. If he had an unexplained ice pick in his back, well, that might be a little bit interesting.
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He may not deserve extra special care, but he deserves descent care because he was human and we don’t want to be like the things we dislike about him. I think the fear, rightly, is that he may have been mistreated because humans are like that: there is a ‘treatment accounting firm’ in our heads that we have trouble turning off. Sometimes it gets carried away….
Comment by Kim — March 14, 2006 #
Best use of the word “marauding savage” ever.
I didn’t even know the man was dead. I had not quite figured how to process his life yet, so his death feels meaningless.
I hope I never have a child like that.
Comment by LaReinaCobre — March 14, 2006 #