RE: Is castrating young boys ethical?
February 4, 2013 at 12:11 am
(This post was last modified: February 4, 2013 at 12:15 am by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
(February 4, 2013 at 12:02 am)Aractus Wrote: ...
But should you allow someone who would normally go through puberty to be castrated in order to preserve their singing voice? Well that's certainly one way to determine their career choice for them early on. I think the biggest difference between now and the 18th century (/19th century) is that there is a lot more career choice, and being able to be an opera singer isn't as great an ability as it may have once been because there are plenty more career choices still available. But yeah, I can see how in the 17th/18th centuries it was desirable and an advantage.
True. But it'd be like the historical musicology equivalent of cloning a mammoth or a Neanderthal.
And I think it would however give them a significant advantage within their own field.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
