Untitled

eccentric-opinion:

ozymandias271:

are bioethicists just universally terrible?

every time I hear of bioethicists saying something it is like “disabled people have a vastly lower quality of life than nondisabled people even though we did an empiricism and they actually don’t” or “we should not let people get money for kidneys and then make kidney donation really hard for no readily apparent reason” or “actually death is a GOOD thing” or “no assisted suicide for anyone ever” or “blah blah I hate transhumanism blah”

are there a bunch of reasonable bioethicists hanging around somewhere and I just don’t see them because no one bothers to argue with them? 

“As history shows, many bioethicists succumb to the thrill of exercising power by saying no. The bioethics field is littered with ill-advised bans, starting in the mid-1970s with the two year international moratorium on recombining DNA, and also including existing laws against selling organs and blood and President Clinton’s prohibition on using human embryos in federally funded medical research.

Simply leaving people free to make their own mistakes will get a bioethicist no perks, no conferences, and no power.”

- Ronald Bailey, Liberation Biology

”Likewise, all that is necessary to defeat a bioethicist is to imagine his eyes glowing red and his voice deepening whenever he mentions death, decay, suffering, and necessity.“

- Black Belt Bayesian, Horned Gods and Dread Bioethicists