從一件死亡看台灣虛幻的道德

江盛  2012/09/06 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BspNHw-K5n4

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台灣許多媒體報導五十三歲葉鳳珠病患陳屍家中的道德譴責方式令人不安，以頭條新聞誇大而一面倒的指摘兒子、媳婦不肖，惡意遺棄更令人懷疑，而檢方聲押獲准的處理方式也讓人感慨。顯然地，廉價和容易的道德武器在台灣處處站上風，葉鳳珠罹患的是亨丁頓舞蹈症，她的死亡無可避免，是解脫，不具名的醫學中心內部消息指出她的醫師對葉鳳珠的媳婦充滿同情，多年來葉鳳珠一直由媳婦陪同到醫院看病。

To Shulie: With Whom It All Began

Shulamith Firestone died last month. http://nplusonemag.com/     

Jo Freeman
http://www.jofreeman.com/
　

I met Shulie at the National Conference for New Politics, held in Chicago over the Labor Day weekend in 1967. It was an unsuccessful attempt to unite the organized Left behind a presidential ticket that would campaign against the war in Viet Nam. A couple women who were not themselves part of the Left had persuaded the conference organizers to give them some space for a women’s caucus. Black caucuses at such meetings were common and accepted, but one for women was by itself radical.

Shulie was one of about four dozen women who met daily to hammer out a resolution that called attention to women’s issues – equal pay, childcare, abortion on demand and other things that today don’t seem very radical. She didn’t say much, but what she did say stuck in my mind. I would now characterize her views as radical feminism uncontaminated by left-wing rhetoric – something that one didn’t often encounter in those days.