To: Solon who wrote (34583 ) 3/24/2013 3:44:30 AM From: average joe Respond to Here he goes on the same topic some time ago...Solon who wrote (5244 )Greg or e Read Replies (2) The point I am trying to get at (amongst several) is: If you are the only arbiter of fairnessthen, from your belief that your policy is moral, it follows that what makes a policy moral is your say-so (for you), and my say-so (for me)..and so on. This denies the meaning of morality, which involves relationship. Nothing is immoral to one on a deserted island, unless there is a God present. " reason and freedom as having fundamental moral value....... "escapes from the same criticism that you leveled at K. "Nothing is immoral.......Unless there is a God" Certainly if "morality...involves relationship" then it follows that, "fundamental moral values" must account for fundamental relationships. If God does not exist then you are back to just your say so, as against mine. Unborn children, being helpless and not having the ability to express their say so, are simply at the whim of, and at the mercy of, the stronger. Right to conduct these experiments based on the fact that no embryo was kept alive more than fourteen days. The ethicist on the panel said they had investigated the rational, for the fourteen day period and had concluded it to be totally arbitrary. I found myself wondering, if fourteen days was ok, why not fourteen weeks? If fourteen weeks was fine why not forty weeks? Hey if one minute before birth might be alright then what about one minute after? Finally if one minute after is allowed why not one day or week or year. We could use kids with severe disabilities . After all they slipped through the cracks anyway. We should have aborted them when we had the chance. Prisoners might be a great source of excess body parts and a testing ground for new drugs. Just think of all the progress. Ain't Science wonderful????? We (humans) have an almost infinite capacity to rationalize any evil we can imagine, and we use Freedom and Reason to do it.
