Of course, if insider trading were legal then it would become much more prevalent and its cost to society would become enormous as individual investors would withdraw from the market and companies would have a much harder time selling shares and using the proceeds to hire people and build plants.

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When it becomes clear that treatment will only prolong the process of dying, our society has endorsed parents' rights to withhold or withdraw treatment from a child when they think it is in his best interests.

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