RE: Stem Cell Research
October 12, 2010 at 3:01 am
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2010 at 3:07 am by Anomalocaris.)
Religious brainlessness is not the only problem here. I suspect the people who agreed with her in your class didn't all do so out of vulnerability to religious persuasion, although religious factors undoubtedly played on the opportunity to increase the overall level of irrationality in this sort of debate. A major part of the aversion to the sensible weighing of quality of life against existence of life is secular, and is an reaction against the overconfident excesses and gross downright abuses of the eugenics movements of early and middle 20th century.