Germany’s highest court declared a fundamental right to commit or assist in a suicide for any reason, possibly excepting children.
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Rather than simplifying our lives, the internet has made our lives more complicated, what with having to continually change passwords, the use of multiple security levels, the threat of hacking, and the like. Now, with the threat of AI creating fraudulent content, some technologists are proposing “personhood credentials” to thwart incursions and impersonations. From the MIT Technology Review story: Personhood credentials work by doing two things AI systems still cannot do: bypassing state-of-the-art cryptographic systems, and passing as a person in the offline, real world. To request credentials, a human would have to physically go to one of a number of issuers, which could be a government or other kind of trusted organization, where they would be asked to provide evidence that they’re Read More ›
The report discusses long-term health risks and malpractice issues, demonstrating how the conjoining of big profits and radical ideology is a toxic mix.
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Almost every state that legalized assisted suicide has already liberalized their laws. It’s NOT just a teensy change in medical ethics.
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The push to increase assisted-suicide residency programs is designed to overcome most doctors’ reluctance to kill their patients.
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And imagine the mischief when eventually everyone’s genome — which should be private — becomes identifiable and hackable.
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Aiding poorer areas of the world to develop scientific infrastructure is a terrific idea but, alas, that’s not what the authors have in mind.
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I think the ultimate goal is to boost employment in the bioethics field. The more issues are deemed bioethical, the greater need for bioethics professors.
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Plant philosophy seeks to change the definitional understandings of “intelligence” to elevate the moral status of plants relative to humans.
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Once the legalization train leaves the station, it is no longer containable or controllable. The category of “killables” never stops expanding.
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My mother died of Alzheimer’s, and she was never less than fully human and as worthy of love and regard when she became incompetent.
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The myth that legal assisted suicide is about terminal illness is becoming harder to swallow. Evidence can be found in a recent survey of doctors, published in the Journal of Cutaneous Oncology, which asked doctors this question: “In addition to adults with terminal illnesses, [which] other groups of patients who should be MAID eligible?” The answers are disturbing. From the survey: Majorities of doctors surveyed answered that they would be willing to be present when the deed is done. Here’s the question: “If it were available (or is available), what is your willingness to be present when patients took MAID drugs?” Again, disturbing results, with 61% either probably or definitely, yes: That’s only a hop, skip, and a jump to willingness to do the deed. And no Read More ›
To her credit, reporter Sharon Kirkey at least provides a brief counterpoint to the pro-euthanasia narrative, something often entirely missing in many media.
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Why not allow the profitable Teton tourist area to to return to a natural state as a forest on the mountain, as is, apparently, its inherent right?
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Quebec’s chief coroner promises an investigation. Don’t expect much to come of it.
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Such compassion is on the outs in these “enlightened” days. Indeed, it may now be that more babies with Down syndrome are killed in the womb than are born.
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The court did not rule — as Glucksberg did not about states — that countries cannot legalize assisted suicide or euthanasia.
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In reality, the public’s loss of “belief” is the natural consequence of the international system’s failing and betraying those it was designed to serve.
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I don’t smoke, but I am wary of efforts to prevent other people from so doing. Now, blue cities — and soon states, most likely — have hit upon a way to ban smoking known as “Tobacco Free Generation” (TFG). It’s Pretty Clever Allow people who can legally buy tobacco today to purchase it, but permanently outlaw the sale of tobacco products to people based on the date of their birth — even as they become adults — as described glowingly in the New England Journal of Medicine: The bylaw, passed by Brookline, Massachusetts, gradually phases out commercial tobacco by banning the sale of nicotine products to anyone born on or after January 1, 2000 (one of us cosponsored the bylaw). Read More ›
If the law grants geological features, viruses, and pond scum “rights,” our economies and human exceptionalism will be the victims.
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