[syriacus]

He was a Fellow in the Program in Ethics

I'm getting the feeling that the main reason that ivory-tower ethics programs exist, is to convince ordinary people, like me, that immoral actions are really ethical actions.

I remember when ethics programs began to sprout up. They were supposed to be the new way to promote morality, without promoting particular religions. We were told that things were much too complex in this modern world and we needed to have experts tell us right from wrong. The simple old idea of decent behavior toward each individual would no longer do.

The ethics-hucksters have thrown out the baby with the bathwater and have left us with a chipped and rusty basin.

[MarMema]

Yup, that's what Wesley says in his books. And he also says the "father" of ethics committees is none other than Ronald Cranford, MD. I suppose you don't need me to tell you how many courts he has testified for death in...