RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 11, 2017 at 7:14 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2017 at 7:25 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(August 10, 2017 at 1:49 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 10, 2017 at 1:36 pm)Hammy Wrote: "Sure stem cell research helps save lives and fight cancer but where's it gonna end? Next we'll be slaughtering live toddlers in preschool to harvest their DNA."
You haven't read much bioethics lately, have you? Infanticide is already on the table.
Actually I'm aware that there are pro-life people who think that such a thing is immoral. It's not immoral because they're not infants, they're stem cells, and they're stem cells that save lives.
ETA: Oh are you referring to this?
http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/03...011-100411
After-birth abortion? It's only immoral if the infant would suffer more from being euthanized than they would if they were kept alive. And yes it should be considered a legitimate ethical topic, as all ethical topics should be worth debating properly with logic... rather than closed off by absolutists who think X, Y and Z are moral/immoral in and of themselves without actually provided logic for their consqeuestnalist reasons for being moral/immoral.
