Back in October I wrote an article, entirely fictitious and under a pen name, that pushed the envelope on ethics in right to life cases. It encouraged the reader to step outside of the particulars of today’s debates and to leave behind the details that cloud our thoughts when trying to advocate one position over another, by creating such an extraordinary situation that one was inclined to consider the universal principles and concepts involved in any such decision.

The article caused quite a stir, and many took it to be an accurate account of an actual event. There was at least one case of an individual attempting to hand it in as evidence in a college course.

When I first distributed it I did not mention its fallacious nature. When it was originally published over at maisonbisson.com it did appear with the disclaimer that it was a fictitious story. I reprint it here for your enjoyment.

Right to Life, After Death? by Alexander Rudzinski

Thanks go to Casey Bisson from maisonbisson.com for creating the PDF and running the original story. I considered running it here without the disclaimer that it was fictitious so as to see what response it would generate, but due to my laziness I’m simply using Casey’s PDF, in which he clearly proclaims its fictitious nature.

tags: alexander rudzinski, casey bisson, maisonbisson, right to life, roderick russell, times scholar

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