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Symposium Draft For Tragic Choices In Everyday Life - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon
Symposium Draft For Tragic Choices In Everyday Life - 1990, Wendy J. Gordon
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In the age of high technology, ordinary life situations often demand tragic choices: kidney dialysis, new pesticides, and even simple legal contracts can pose excruciating choices for people from all walks of life and inescapable dangers for innocent victims. This human dilemma-facing a world in which some innocents will die- is paralleled by the central Christian mythos of a willing crucifixion. Law and myth help us clarify the human situation.