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David Foster Wallace: "Are some things still worth dying for?"

• Millennium 13y ago
  To call any death a price worth paying is widely seen as unempathetic. In a culture where empathy is deemed the core value -not quite a settled question in the US, but it has been known to sway elections from time to time- treating even a single death as too many is the natural result. That, in turn, leads us to today.