Five charged after Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPhone — The Globe and Mail
Beijing–Reuters
Friday, 6 April 2012
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/five-charged-after-chinese-teen-sells-kidney-to-buy-iphone/article2394072/
Philosophies, as well as Actions, Have Consequences*
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Executive Director
29 February 2012
It was Horace Mann who said, “Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.” If that habit is of thought, it becomes a philosophy. Whether that habit is of thought or action, there are attendant consequences. Let’s consider children in this light.
Whether one thinks that babies are commodities, “not yet persons,” or a heritage, those philosophies have consequences. Recently, Theresa Erickson came face-to-face with the consequences of viewing babies as commodities (wire tap recordings). Ms. Erickson, the author of ...read more