A politician holding high office, after reading The Giver, decides that new laws should be passed outlawing Coltish communities. These laws will also affect traditional communities, such as the Amish and the Bruderhof. As an attorney you are engaged by such communities to help defend their continuing existence prepare your defense.

After collecting as many examples of attempts to build utopia as you can find (these should include both practical attempts, and fictional representations), plot them on a world map and on a timeline to determine whether they tend to occur in clusters.

You are a television documentary producer. You have been asked to produce an outline for a 60minute program on the subject of euthanasia, or voluntary suicide. Your professional brief requires you to present a balance of opinion, but as an individual you have very definite views. In your outline...