David L. Schindler, writing in Communio Magazine:
I nevertheless do mean to ask quite literally whether there is not resident in America’s dominant liberal culture a peculiar tendency toward a “compassionate” and “subtle” violence driven by techno-science that rivals the worst evils of history. “Compassionate”: because the violence perpetrated is expressly in the interests of alleviating someone’s suffering–to be sure always someone other than the one being terminated. “Subtle”: because the violence perpetrated is characteristically against those who cannot exercise the agency of self necessary to claim rights on his or her own behalf–against embryonic human beings, for example, who of their very nature are always “silent” and always “invisible.”
