Maybe…the death of a feckless twentysomething is inevitable if we are to restrain healthcare costs. But it is still a tragedy. It is not something a decent person cheers…the execution of hundreds, while perhaps defensible politically…is nonetheless a brutal, awful business…the same is true of torture…no civilized person would brag of it or dismiss any moral issue with it at all…yet that is what Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney have repeatedly done. They are positively proud of their torture record.