Category: Culture & Ethics
Now It’s Plant "Intelligence"
I wrote previously about a professor (of course!) in the New York Times advocating “pea personhood.”
Group-Funding to Pay for Swiss Suicide?
I hope this is performance art.
John Holdren, White House Science Adviser, Hedges on Human Germline Engineering
His statement expresses zero moral opposition to the genetic engineering of the human genome.
Transhumanism’s Despairing Howl
I hear all the time that human exceptionalism is arrogant — that we are not “special” in nature, nor are our lives of higher value than those of other species.
Gallup Reports: One-Third Believe Animals Deserve Equal Rights
I hope these people didn’t think the question through.