The first laws passed are not meant to be ceilings but launching pads. So, expect bills to be filed loosening eligibility or otherwise allowing more sick people to get dead faster.
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The editors of Nature are pushing back against the notion that a machine can be the moral equivalent of a human being.
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The journal article authors argue that reproductive technologies should be essentially universally available to anyone who wants a baby.
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Canada’s leaders have shifted their focus from the mentally ill — which caused pushback — to dementia patients as euthanasia’s next big expansion.
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The authors try to sell their radical proposal by comparing it to past efforts to redress injustices against humans.
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That makes me wonder how serious they really are about claiming AI personhood or reflecting on its consequences.
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“More than human” implies being possessed of greater fundamental value, than humans, which illustrates the hatred of humans that is the foundation of the nature rights movement.
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Usually, the attacks on “medical conscience” involve threatening to refuse doctors’ professional licenses. Now the stakes are raised.
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A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates the niceness and the threat.
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Some claim that AI is merely a very sophisticated tool that will lead to stunning societal improvements, while others worry about potential dark negative effects.
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A recent book, “Sex Beyond “Yes,” provides evidence for the estrangement of bioethics from majority opinion.
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Killing to harvest organs is now sufficiently mainstream for NPR to have featured one of the latest proposal’s authors in a respectful interview.
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Of course trees are alive but they have very little else in common with human beings beyond consisting of carbon molecules.
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The issue isn’t whether children are euthanized so much as whether doctors and nurse practitioners should be permitted under the law to kill patients or assist their suicides regardless of the patients’ age.
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The moral stigma against suicide prevents many deaths — which is why assisted suicide activists don’t call it suicide.
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Accepting that we are merely flesh marionettes dancing to the strings pulled by our various biological processes would doom human decency.
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It seems to me the only defense is to refuse assisted-suicide legalization, regardless of the cause.
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We can’t “be a moral society around the globe” if assisted suicide/euthanasia “becomes institutionalized throughout our society.”
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A bill has been put in the hopper in the California State Senate promoting “coexistence” between people and wild animals.
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The article, which is complex and arcane in the extreme, does not reach final moral conclusions about abortion, but it does give away the ultimate pro-abortion game that is afoot in this argumentation.
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