Great article, but you're missing a key point: these events do NOT happen at random intervals. In 1918, the world was just coming out of the greatest economic boom in human history (the first truly significant such boom that lifted millions out of subsistence level existence), but that boom created lots of "excess" workers & threatened to destabilize the powers that be. So, the powers that be were looking for ideas that would kill lots of people...like pandemics & wars. Now, we have the computer boom, which again creates lots of "excess" workers & threatens to destabilize the powers that be. So, they're looking for excuses to kill people. Supply & demand works for ideas too - people demanded ideas to kill people & the market supplied them. Bill Gates wanted to kill & epidemiologists gave him the ideas to do it. Racism wasn't really a thing until slave owners need to justify slavery - supply & demand. Folks, the powers that be realize that computers are about to put them out of work. The US is losing ground relative to the other powers; the NYT is losing ground relative to alt media; the banks are losing ground relative to alt finance etc...so all those people DEMAND ideas to justify killing & low & behold, "science" found the ideas they needed. If the powers that be had wanted you to live, they NEVER would have made this "mistake". Posner calls it strategic recklessness, a mistake that's profitable for the person making it. And, as Posner rightly points out, is that really a mistake? If your mistake gets you what you want while hurting others, is it a mistake? Were these people fools? Driven mad by fear? Or simply meeting market demand because they didn't CARE about the consequences? Ultimately, such things are questions for God & philosophers, but for the rest of us the answer is clear: we cannot allow ANYONE to wield the power of life & death over others precisely because NO ONE can be trusted with such power. If there is a demand for death (and there will be), then there will be a supply. Shut down the doctors & they'll simply find something else. (UFOs anyone?) The lesson of Genesis (whether you believe its divine origin or not) is that we CANNOT PLAY GOD! We can't do the trolley problem because we never know which track actually kills more people; we don't have the requisite knowledge to make such tradeoffs. You should NEVER tell me what to do (other than to refrain from injuring you) because you can't possibly know what's right (you can only tell me how you want to be treated &, thus, how you should treat me; you can't actually tell me that X is better for me. Sure, you can advise me or try to persuade me, but you don't & can't actually know.) So, yes, medical freedom, but understand that they'll make a million new excuses for everyone we beat back. END THEIR POWER! The ring must be destroyed; we cannot use it.