03Nov 2024 by Post

We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals”

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Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Source
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15Oct 2023 by Post

Saving Humans Is More Important than Saving Pigs

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A potential avenue of increasing the supply of organs — xenotransplantation — is not, in my view, morally problematic in the least. Source
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08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

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Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source
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22Mar 2023 by Post

Euthanasia’s Cultural Collateral Damage: Less Respect for Human Life

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Canada has fallen off the euthanasia moral cliff by allowing broad categories of people to be killed by doctors as a means of ending “suffering.” Source
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07Feb 2023 by Post

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

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Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Source
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