Message Detail Subject: Million Dollar Baby Critique Author: sharonslacks@peoplepc.com Date: 3/22/2005 Hollywood displays its discomfort with physical disability by producing films that portray the killing people with physical disabilities as morally correct. People with physical disabilities embody the pain that we all want to shed. A society that supports the suicide of some but not others is making judgements on the value of one life against another. Why are we so quick to support the euthanasia of someone paralyzed from the neck down and to condemn the assisted suicide of one in horrible psychological pain but in fine physical condition? Would we be as inclined to assist someone in dire psychological pain to commit suicide? Both acts of euthanasia are halachically problematic; but I'm addressing our inclinations, biases, and predilections.