The conditionality of life and the circumstance that human life is open to choice has the structure of necessity right for morality. The absoluteness of life or death is the absoluteness of moral necessity. That one freely chooses life, originates life, in thought and action respecting its requirements and opportunities—this is one’s moral glory. Stephen Boydstun http://www.objectivistliving.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=7563#entry82651