Kathryn: I would never call you, nor Ramesh, nor any colleague, a bad person, just because of an honest disagreement on a point of ethics. We’re all doing our best with this. It is a matter of real gravity, and I hope we are dealing with it in that spirit. I think it is cruel to let this woman linger on in her degraded and hopeless condition. You think it would be cruel to let her die. I doubt either of us will convince the other. There are plenty of honest conservatives on both sides, though, as my email bag — and I’m sure yours too — testifies. I can’t think of a better use for The Corner than airing issues like this.

Alas, my book, which I am supposed to have finished May 1st (eeeeek!) is now one day further behind, and I have to drop off the debate.