The world of right and wrong, crime and punishment, revenge and forgiveness, is a human one that requires the gift of abstract reason.
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What many people are really craving isn’t “interesting” experiences but meaning. But sources of meaning like faith, family, community, country, have decayed.
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Effective altruism is a kind of therapy, a type of self-help for the angst-ridden techno-elites trying to grapple with human suffering and limitations.
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Execution by nitrogen inhalation is another example of what I call cruel and unusual death with dignity.
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Could it happen in the United States? Of course. It can happen anywhere where people are willing to ignore the demands of evidence in favor of private truth.
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Organ harvesting as the means of euthanasia has already been proposed in a major bioethics journal.
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I would be surprised if anything came of it. Authorities rarely have the gumption to seriously punish suicide assistance unless in involves a teenager.
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Weikart: The circle of people deemed eligible for euthanasia or assisted suicide keeps widening, because a culture of death will tend to spread…
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The longer the euthanasia movement is held at bay, the more likely that America can avoid becoming a culture of death like that in Canada.
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China has denied the accusation repeatedly, but multiple international studies and exposés have substantiated the brutality with strong circumstantial evidence.
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Choosing Rachel Levine and Seema Yasmin as keynoters reveals how one-sidedly ideological the AAP has become on issues of great cultural importance.
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In our debate I pressed Singer on this issue, asking why he chose those particular capacities, and I was stunned that he could not provide an answer.
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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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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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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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The use of people with dementia in cruel experiments during the Nazi era illustrates the thesis of Richard Weikart’s new book, Unnatural Death.
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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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As a medical scientist, he looks at how new findings will help develop new treatments to revive people now considered hopeless and restore brain damage.
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