Making Room In The Inn: Why The Modern World Needs The Needy

In a speech (the above title) presented at the Capital University School of Law, Columbus, OH (4.7.07) Jennifer Roback Morse describes a natural state of dependency in all people at some point in life and examines the way in which society, in its current state, interprets and reacts to this dependency. She maintains that we marginalize the needy in three ways:
1. Redefining the needy into autonomy
2. Commercializing dependent care
3. We kill dependent people
She proposes that a radical alternative to this thinking is a "gift" perspective.
The Law of the Gift
"instead of an initial presumption that each individual is a rational agent endowed with rights and a
presumption of freedom, start with the idea that each human life is a gift."

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