16Jun 2026 by Post

“Accelerating” Toward a Post-Human Future, and Loving It

accelerationism, Alex Williams, Artificial Intelligence, bioethics, Computational Sciences, death, Elon Musk, Grokipedia, human beings, human exceptionalism, human life, machines, Monash University, Netscape, Nick Land, Nick Srnicek, philosophy, Ray Kurzweil, Silicon Valley, Singularity, superintelligence, tech entrepreneurs, transhumanism, Tucker Carlson, Vincent Lê
There is a lot of AI Apocalypse Now! and AI Utopia Soon! in the news these days. Source
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15Jun 2026 by Post

The Horrors of Euthanasia and the Problem of Suffering

2. Does God Exist?, Apologetics, bioethics, Christian Worldview, Christianity, euthanasia, Gospel, meaning of life, meaninglessness, problem of suffering, Secularism, Theology and Christian Apologetics, Thomas Moller, www.FreeThinkingministries
As I’m writing this blog, on March 26, 2016, a young woman by the name of Noelia Castillo Ramos is being euthanized in Spain.[i] Unfortunately, this is nothing new in our Western society. Medically assisted suicide has been legal in Canada for almost 10 years.[ii] Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and the United States—yes, even the USA in some states—have legalized medically assisted suicide to some degree.[iii] You may wonder, as I did, what circumstances allow for assistance in suicide? In the United States, the law states that only mentally competent and terminally ill patients, whose illness will kill them within six months, allows for assisted suicide. It is fairly similar in Australia and New Zealand. Despite how extreme…
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14Jun 2026 by Post

On Morality of Suicide, a Wide Disparity of Opinion; Why?

assisted suicide, authority, bioethics, business, chronic pain, despair, disability, doctors, Gallup, Love, media, Medicine, moral acceptability, opinions, physician-assisted suicide, poll, popular culture, prevention, rescue, respondents, self-termination, spouse, suicide, terminal sickness
Close to a majority, 49 percent, answered that committing suicide with a doctor’s help is morally acceptable, while 45 percent responded that it is not. Source
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30May 2026 by Post

Journal Advocates “Terminal Sedation” for People Committing Suicide by Self-Starving

antipsychotics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, Bioethics (journal), confusion, decision‐making, dehydration, distress, doctors, encouragement, euthanasia, fluids, HIV, Medicine, palliating doctor, patients, physicians, professional journals, refractory delirium, self-starvation, Suffering, suicide, suicide assistance, syringes, terminal sedation, voluntary stop eating and drinking, VSED
Articles in professional journals are a means of constructing future public policy and people need to be warned. Source
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28Mar 2026 by Post

Ethics Journal Urges MANDATORY Abortion for Pregnant Minors

abortion, antiboyism, antigirlism, authoritarianism, baby, bioethics, breasts, California, carefreeness, Children, China, choice, coercion, discrimination, Ethics (journal), force, gestating, gestation, girls, Medicine, mothering, peer-reviewed journals, philosophers, physical restraint, pregnancy, pro-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, sedation, terminology, totalitarianism, Transgender, University of British Columbia
There is a word to describe “philosophy” like this: totalitarian. Indeed, it reminds me of China’s “one-child” policy. Source
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11Feb 2026 by Post

Bioethicist Jumps Shark, Goes After Whole Milk

alt-right, Art Caplan, Ben Carson, Benito Mussolini, bigotry, bioethicists, bioethics, dog whistle, ethics, eugenics, Europe, far right, For What It’s Worth, health, John Fetterman, lyrics, milk, neo-Nazis, Oval Office, paranoia, Racism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., school menus, Sigmund Freud, soy milk, U.S. Senate, United States, white nationalists, whole milk, whole white milk
To paraphrase Freud: Sometimes whole milk is just whole milk. It’s about improving health, not promoting bigotry. Source
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05Feb 2026 by Post

Are We Just Animals? A Tempting Delusion

animals, bioethics, Bloodhound Gang, cats, Children, Conversation, Discovery Channel, embodied beings, friendship, Gombe Chimpanzee War, human beings, human exceptionalism, humans, incorporeal intelligences, J. Budziszewsk, laboratory animals, Laws, locusts, mammals, Pandemic of Lunacy, Parents, primates, rationality, snakes, spouses, transhumanists, University of Texas, wolves, worship
Some of my students argue that humans should be wiped off the face of the earth to make room for the other species. Source
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