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posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 10:34 AM
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Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human
This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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- Name: Wesley J. Smith
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I am a Senior Fellow in Human Rights and Bioethics at the Discovery Institute and the author of 12 books, including A Rat Is A Pig Is A Dog Is A Boy, which is relevant to the issues considered by this blog.
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This is interesting. I am rather hopeful that futile care theory can be stopped. But a large portion of my readers are not.
Call us cynical. I haven't seen anything to indicate that anybody gives a damn what happens in The Netherlands. More and more I feel that country is appropriately named. I'm leaning toward altering it to "Netherworld" myself, but eh.
Honestly? People don't care because it's not happening to them and they won't fight for anyone that isn't a "person" to them. Intriguing thing - the "personhood" theory actually holds up. Anybody who's a "them" and not an "us" is automatically a non-person.
That's how the majority of US citizens can read about the state of things in Africa, for example, and still be more willing to spend $1,500 on a new Nintendo Wii than donating to a charity to help someone else out.
They're not "persons."
Pisses me off when you consider the fact that all of us were "persons" to just about the whole world on 9/11.
I was going to mention that no one thinks the Netherlands will be condemned.
Tabs: Most people didn't give a fig about slavery either. In fact, the abolitionists were mobbed, murdered, their printing presses thrown in rivers, run out of town on a rail, etc--and that was in the NORTH. In the South, postmasters burned their tracts in the public square and bounties were put on their heads.
Everything old is new again.
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