A Sad Day

I can understand how people can view the Terri Schiavo case differently. To me, the right result seems clear, even though the facts are complicated and the legal history is tangled. But I can understand how others can see the case differently, and I can foresee that in other cases, involving people on ventilators and other life-support systems, whose medical condition is not in doubt, I may part company with some who agree with my view of the Schiavo case. What I don’t understand is why this tragic case should be an occasion for the partisan hatred which currently bedevils our public life:

I don’t know how to account for it, unless one concludes that for some liberals, politics is about hate, period.