Friday, February 25, 2005

Cyborg Democracy - The Vatican condemns condoms, praises disease and pain

Cyborg Democracy - The Vatican condemns condoms, praises disease and pain:
"Yes, most of the world's population has no access to modern health care, and yes, health care resources should be managed, locally and globally, in such a way as to ensure as fair as possible a distribution of their benefits. Nothing to object here, but this is not the main thesis that Vatican officials want to defend.

The main thesis if formulated a few paragraphs later: in the words of psychiatrist Manfred Lutz, a Vatican academic, 'Precisely in the handicap, in the disease, in the pain, in old age, in dying and death one can, instead, perceive the truth of life in a clearer way'."