Most human believe that life or death decision should be made by jurors.
The essay combines a specific and more general theme. In attacking ' the doctrine of the sanctify if human life' human takes themselves thereby to be opposing the conviction that human life has special value. They argue that this conviction goes deep in their live in many ways that do not depend on what human identifies as central to, and that they attacked. Therefore misses its main target. In purporting to dig below the supposedly illusion- ridden surface of our thinking about value.