In a terrible irony, four Israeli doctors have been arrested for conducting unethical medical experiments on the elderly. I keep warning that when we lose sight of the crucial understanding that each human has intrinsic value simply and merely because he or she is human, terrible consequences follow. Stories like this are early storm warnings of that truth.
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