Why not declare open season, issue licenses, and simply kill them all where they stand?
(Come to think of it, Babylon 5 did an episode with a theme similar to this. Ended rather badly, though. As no one is truly "pure," the result was the eradication of a planet's entire populace. Oh well; I'm sure the Shining Lights of our elite will handle it much better. Right?)
Dan
Maybe they will turn the discarded fetuses into "Soylent Green!"
The University of Rhode Island and the NIH have a very serious mental case on their hands. But they probably don't care. Just as Princeton University doesn't care that Peter Singer who espouses even more inhuman "ethical" views doesn't care.
What is this with these neo Socialists?
It Can’t Happen here…Or Can It?
Source: Focus On The Family Published: August 1998; Author:Tom Neven"A witness to Hitler and an official observer at the Nuremberg war crimes trials warns against what happens when a nation’s moral foundations are shattered But his years studying in Berlin in the shadow of Hitler have perhaps had the greatest effect in shaping him. Today, he has many things to say as our culture continues to wallow in abortion on demand and careens headlong toward physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and even eugenics, the belief that we can "improve" the human race through science. ........"
Beethoven - deaf.
John Milton - blind.
Homer - blind.
Helen Keller - blind & deaf.
Stephen Hawking - paralyzed.
Charles Dickens - epilepsy.
Stevie Wonder - blind.
Ray Charles - blind.
Louis Braille - severely impaired vision.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - epilepsy.
James Thurber - severely impaired vision.
I'm sure there are many more.
The value of human life is not determined by ability. When I was just out of high school, I had the opportunity to work with an autistic six year old child. There were so many things this child was unable to do, but my God, this little boy (and his older brother, who was not autistic) made such a deep and lasting impression on my life! So much so that I am now seeking a career working with disabled children.
I am also the older sister of a legally blind young man. My brother cannot drive, and will probably always require some assistance from others in his activities of daily living. But my brother is also an intelligent, accomplished man who, at the moment, is in the process of building his own computer. "Disabled" is not a word that comes to mind when I think of him. My brother is also a good man- passionate and thoughtful. The idea that this poor excuse for an ethicist would declare my brother's life not worth living is repulsive to me.
The faulty assumption that this "ethicist" operates under is the assumption that life was intended to be easy, and that we are all intended to have the same abilities. This is manifestly untrue, and the implications of such an assumption are, quite frankly, barbaric and inhuman.
Dan W. Brock
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, and Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics at Brown University
Ph.D. Columbia University
Office: 201 Gerard House, 54 College St.
Office Phone: (401) 863-3204
E-Mail:Dan_Brock@brown.edu