genuinely feel on this matter. My daughter's life is not an inconvenience, she is beautiful, talented, intelligent, happy and she loves life.  Over recent years our lives have been destroyed by medical and social employees who have sought to attack us for daring to complain about the way they have treated her -- all we asked for was health care!  Debate the ethics in that! I am neither a medical professional nor an academic and was drawn to read this article in response to the tabloid style coverage it received. Personally, I found the arguments interesting, if a little shallow and poorly formed, but  a lot more interesting than the reports it spawned. My biggest disappointment came in reading comments pages. Clearly, the feeling amongst many of  the academics/medics who felt moved to comment is that this journal should not publish anything that they disagree with ormight offend their own moral code. Was that, indeed, one of the characteristics on the Nazi regime that the detractors of this article/journal have been so keen to cite. The idea put forward in this article will be abhorrent to the vast majority of us but that doesn't mean it should be discussed. That's what scientists and philosophers do, is it not. Only by discussing unpleasant ideas can we refute them. I suggest that this is the purpose of academic journals. Certainly, open debate on matters which affect humanity is better than hiding behind God, or Nazi history. Christopher J. Moore I do not