http://www.bloggernews.net/19967 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:57:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/19967#comment-84747 Nancy Reyes Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:31:43 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19967#comment-84747 A Manson: The reason I don't agree is that medical "Ethicists" have all sorts of criteria as to whom they consider "meaningful" life. If some had their way, retarded people with IQ under 40, the senile, and the brain damaged are "non persons" and have no meaningful life. (Joseph Fletcher's definition). A Manson: The reason I don’t agree is that medical “Ethicists” have all sorts of criteria as to whom they consider “meaningful” life. If some had their way, retarded people with IQ under 40, the senile, and the brain damaged are “non persons” and have no meaningful life. (Joseph Fletcher’s definition).

]]> http://www.bloggernews.net/19967#comment-84602 A Manson Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:32:17 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19967#comment-84602 Whether chimera's have souls or not is the wrong question. The real question is whether the potential medical benefits outweigh our responsibility to what constitutes a new life-form, albeit a non viable life-form that will have its cells harvested before it develops to take any kind of 'meaningful' form. Whether chimera’s have souls or not is the wrong question. The real question is whether the potential medical benefits outweigh our responsibility to what constitutes a new life-form, albeit a non viable life-form that will have its cells harvested before it develops to take any kind of ‘meaningful’ form.

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