Ethics, anyone?

Re: Against the argument of potentiality:

"The fact that an entity undergoes changes that will make it significantly different does not constitute a reason for treating it as though it had already undergone those changes- we are all potentially dead but that is not a reason for treating us as if we were already dead."

Re: Support Services

"The story of every person is necessarily a work in progress. Yet it is also true that there will be no progress is the final chapters are written well before the lives of people have ended. We must choose, then, whether we will be part of letting a story unfold in ways that might undo today's patterns, or whether we insist on our favourite chapters being repeated. If we are modest we will remain open to an authorship that is only partially our own."

Kendrick, Michael J. “An Ethic of Modesty In The Support Of Others” in One Person At A Time, Patricia Fratangelo, Marjorie Olney and Sue Lehr, Training Resource Network Inc., St, Augustine, FL 2001.