Category: Culture & Ethics
China Genetically Engineering Monkeys to Be More Human
Swell. A few years ago we were promised experiments that would effect the brain would never be done in mice. They were right.
Wesley Smith on Transhumanism — A New Tower of Babel
Wesley has been fighting this fight almost single-handedly, as the media looks on in admiration at attempts to control evolution and usher in a secular New Jerusalem.
“Starve Me” Advance Directive Would Be Immoral
Many of these provisions are, to say the least, subject to interpretation. And people with dementia may refuse food one meal, and accept the next.
“Ecocide” Would Criminalize Resource Development
Note that “peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants” is a very broad term that is not limited to human beings. Rather, it includes everything from grass, fish, and insects, to mice, snakes, and people.
So Now Will Nurses Only Prevent Some Suicides?
Here’s the problem. The leadership of organized medicine and mainstream bioethicists are increasingly joining the progressive ideological coalition.