(un)published

This began as a letter to the weekly New York Times column Letter to the Ethicist .  I subscribe to The   Ethicist  and receive it in my email.  Sometimes I read it, sometimes I don't.  When I came upon last week's letter, I read the letter, but not the reply.  Sometimes it's like that, especially with things in my email.  For approximately the past two weeks, off and on, I had been too much in my head about my own Ethicist question, although I wasn't yet thinking of it that way.  When I read the current Letter to the Ethicist , I began to think that the Ethicist was exactly what I needed.  I scrolled to the bottom to the Contact the Ethicist and clicked on the link.  A blank page came up and I began to write.  When I finished, I hit the send button.  This is my letter.  It contains four individuals as follows: 1.  I am a character in my own ethical dilemma. 2.  The main character, my friend Helen (not her rea...

This essay started out as a New Yorker Letter to the Editor.  Not that I had any belief my letter would be published, but I wrote it with a length and with details that made it unpublishable.  I just had more to write than any Letter to the Editor can accommodate, especially with regard to the Lucy Letby case.  When I hit the send button I knew that there was still more to write.  Here it is. To really appreciate what I am writing about, it is best to read the essays.  For sure, they are long but in each the authors make sure to keep you reading.  For non-readers, insights into the display of mean-spirited and corrupt investigations and prosecutions by the British criminal justice system may be seen by watching the four episode Masterpiece Theater docudrama  Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office ,  available on several streaming services.   Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office is closely based on actual events that began in the early 2000s, and have n...