Whose Life Is Worth Living?

I spent a time pondering the Schiavo case, the value of life, and making notes about what I wanted to say. Then, Orson Scott Card said it for me:
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It wasn't that many years ago when I happened to be in Raleigh at a gathering of literary folk who were quite full of their own superiority. They started talking about people who (gasp!) let years go by without reading a single book.
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