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.)
The Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council has picked up on my call to defend human exceptionalism. Here's the link. I am most pleased.
Labels: Human Exceptionalism. Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 6:45 PM
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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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And it's not even a foreign country!
Your famous!
Rather than looking at these questions from the perceptive of "person hood" we should look at it from the perspective of "human life."
If the "person" in question is
1 alive
2 is human (DNA est)
then it should be honored will all the rights that any other human has.
Secular Heretic. I agree that personhood is not what we should look at because it is becoming a subjective concept, meaning that those who qualify will depend on who has the power to decide which attributes matter. That is why I always focus on humanhood.
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