Category: Culture & Ethics
Ethicist Peter Singer Says Don’t Pay to Treat Disabled Babies
Rather than believing in universal human equality, he would invidiously measure the capacities of human beings to determine whether they are “persons.”
Thomas Nagel’s Evolutionary Critique, on London Theatrical Stage?
It seems so from what I read about the new Tom Stoppard play The Hard Problem.
The American Euthanasia Movement Is Running a Political Con Game
If and when assisted suicide is legalized in more states, bet on the killable caste expanding here just as it has overseas.
As Clay in the Potter’s Hand, Eugenicists Would Edit Human Genes
One Oxford bioethicist says germ-line experiments are no different from having cell phones and computers.
Charles Krauthammer Is for Human Exceptionalism, but I’d Rather Have Evidence than Mere Intuition
“If the mating habits of the Arctic caribou have to be disturbed so we can produce 1 million barrels of oil a day…, I say: Apologize to the amorous herd, then drill.”