After all, death afflicts everyone, and legalized assisted suicide would allow any individual to avoid an excruciatingly painful death.
"Who did that comfort and who did it afflict?" Well, Harmony Korine's new film, Trash Humpers, afflicts everyone, the afflicted and the comfortable.
But he made a case that all those steps were necessary, not to help the institutions or people receiving taxpayer money, but to avert deeper economic problems that would afflict everyone for years to come.
It's a form of madness which afflicts everyone from grouse moor owners to conservationist groups, and it reflects an astonishing loss of perspective on the part of those who should be protecting the natural world.
All the signs are that they've escaped Difficult Second Album syndrome, a life-threatening condition which has afflicted everyone from the Clash to the Stone Roses, from Scissor Sisters to Franz Ferdinand and the Vines (remember them?).
The medical profession was reluctant for many years to acknowledge a condition oncologists now call, with inelegant if commendable candour, "chemo brain" – and like every other side-effect, it does not afflict everyone.
It's misguided to view depression and suicidal impulses as the result of a chemical imbalance that afflicts everyone in more or less the same way.
They afflict everyone equitably, reminding us that no matter how we try to distinguish each other, in the grand scope of things, we are all mortal, and vulnerable, and not so dissimilar.
The Enquirer is defined by its predatory spirit its dedication to revealing that celebrities, far from leading ideal lives, endure the same plagues of disease, weight gain, and family dysfunction that afflict everyone else.
The sense of invisibility in the family, survivor guilt, the desperate need to escape the pressures and to be noticed afflict everyone who grows up with a sibling who can never be a peer.
