Prof. Smajdor whole body gestational donation is not original, although certainly abhorrent. It was written about in Frank Herbert's Dune series of novels. It was practiced by a particularly egregious "race" of humans that had perfected that and other practices on their home planet.
In this case, and while this is of course speculation, I seriously doubt that Prof. Smajdor may have read such novels. She may as well have done so, but the point appears: even if that is the case, she didn't learn very much, eh?
I'm concerned we have a whole slew of "philosophers" and "bioethicists" that are actually deficit in the necessary empathy, compassion or moral fortitude, required for those very fields.
Whether that's through desensitization or toxic chemical poisioning from our environment, I don't know. But the lacking of these qualities in academia theses days is truly frightening.
Do we really want "Mengle" types determining our bioethics!!!???🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
To be able to give informed consent, the person must not only be conscious and sapient, it must also have the ability to understand what is being consented to.
Her argument hinges on pre-meditated consent (organ donor-parallel), on lack of consciousness/sapience rendering consent moot, and utilisation of a resource trumping human(e) considerations.
So, following her logic and ethical framework, there's nothing stopping euthanasia by consent if the person in question cannot say "No". There's nothing hindering using severly mentally handicapped for experimentation and research since they lack the capacity to deny - based on knowledge and understanding - consent. There's nothing, using her ethics, saying using comatose persons as real-life sex-dolls is wrong either.
This is where you always will arrive if being human is not given a value, even if (or especially because of) it is arbitrary, that practical vulgar-utilist arguments becomes able to justify using another human as a thing.
This is lunacy. Even if it is only a thought experiment, which I doubt, it’s repulsive. I could write several paragraphs about why this is morally wrong, what it could lead to in the future, etc..... but the bottom line is this,
Just because you can think up something this sickening and possibly make it ‘work’ doesn’t mean that you should.
I’m amazed that an ‘ethicist’ would even propose such a thing. I guess that I shouldn’t be surprised but this is further proof (if any were needed after Covid) that the medical profession needs some serious reform.....
I do believe, by now (i.e., 'after' 'Covid'), the question is no longer, 'can medicine be reformed' or wouldn't we better off with abolishing most of it altogether. Then again, I do think that this might also be a ploy to trick the population to accept the destruction of social/medical insurance systems at the hands of globalists' henchmen.
“Experts “ are dangerous. This woman is frightening. God knows who and how many would be at risk from this type of corrupt justification of $cience.
Exactly. Dangerous and apparently possessed by Evil. I doubt there is anything else that could be said about such sentiments.
Prof. Smajdor whole body gestational donation is not original, although certainly abhorrent. It was written about in Frank Herbert's Dune series of novels. It was practiced by a particularly egregious "race" of humans that had perfected that and other practices on their home planet.
In this case, and while this is of course speculation, I seriously doubt that Prof. Smajdor may have read such novels. She may as well have done so, but the point appears: even if that is the case, she didn't learn very much, eh?
I'm concerned we have a whole slew of "philosophers" and "bioethicists" that are actually deficit in the necessary empathy, compassion or moral fortitude, required for those very fields.
Whether that's through desensitization or toxic chemical poisioning from our environment, I don't know. But the lacking of these qualities in academia theses days is truly frightening.
Do we really want "Mengle" types determining our bioethics!!!???🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
To respond to your question: I suppose it's too late for us to ponder whether or not we 'want' such people running (public) health; they already do.
Question is: how does one go about getting rid of them, i.e., restoring sanity and accountability to our systems?
To be able to give informed consent, the person must not only be conscious and sapient, it must also have the ability to understand what is being consented to.
Her argument hinges on pre-meditated consent (organ donor-parallel), on lack of consciousness/sapience rendering consent moot, and utilisation of a resource trumping human(e) considerations.
So, following her logic and ethical framework, there's nothing stopping euthanasia by consent if the person in question cannot say "No". There's nothing hindering using severly mentally handicapped for experimentation and research since they lack the capacity to deny - based on knowledge and understanding - consent. There's nothing, using her ethics, saying using comatose persons as real-life sex-dolls is wrong either.
This is where you always will arrive if being human is not given a value, even if (or especially because of) it is arbitrary, that practical vulgar-utilist arguments becomes able to justify using another human as a thing.
Exactly.
And we've seen these kinds of 'reasoning' before, mainly in the West revolving around 'euthanasia'. What goes around, comes around, it seems.
This is lunacy. Even if it is only a thought experiment, which I doubt, it’s repulsive. I could write several paragraphs about why this is morally wrong, what it could lead to in the future, etc..... but the bottom line is this,
Just because you can think up something this sickening and possibly make it ‘work’ doesn’t mean that you should.
I’m amazed that an ‘ethicist’ would even propose such a thing. I guess that I shouldn’t be surprised but this is further proof (if any were needed after Covid) that the medical profession needs some serious reform.....
These people are ravingly mad, of course.
I do believe, by now (i.e., 'after' 'Covid'), the question is no longer, 'can medicine be reformed' or wouldn't we better off with abolishing most of it altogether. Then again, I do think that this might also be a ploy to trick the population to accept the destruction of social/medical insurance systems at the hands of globalists' henchmen.
Gobsmacked.
"pregnancy itself should properly speaking be medically contra-indicated for women generally."
These words written by a WOMAN?? Let's hope she never has children eh?
Thanks epithemeus, a frightening but enlightening read.
It is--breathtakingly lunatic, albeit these words don't grasp the essence of 'papers' such as this one. Stay tuned for the next one '_'