Sunday, 4 March 2012

Babies Offer Measured Response to Calls to Kill Them

King Herod must have been a medical ethicist    
Posted by ulaca at 11:06
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13 comments:

Gweipo said...

wow, heady stuff. But on the other hand sometimes I think we treat animals more humanely than humans, remembering my first death of a calf that was born when I was a child and my grandfather deemed it to be non-viable, right to dogs allowed to be put down to prevent further suffering by prolonging their lives unnecessarily.

it's just as a mother I'm not quite sure I'd be able to take the call ...

4 March 2012 21:36
Foamier said...

Judging by some of the reactions to the article (death threats), perhaps the age-range in which to determine whether there is a "moral right to life" should be extended.

5 March 2012 14:30
ulaca said...

Maybe the authors see the death threats as some kind of twisted endorsement of their philosophy. Who knows?

5 March 2012 16:11
ulaca said...

GP, I'm no veterinarian, but isn't the chief reason that a farmer has livestock put down that it will provide no economic benefit? Would it actually suffer if patched up and put out to pasture to pass its days in peace? The human case is quite different, as any of us who know parents who dote on their Down's Syndrome kids know all too well. Utility hardly comes into it - for many people, not hardly, but not at all.

5 March 2012 16:21
Foamier said...

I doubt that, old chap. Their fault is being academic to a, well, a fault. Jumping to a completely different issue, of capital punishment, would not be very ivory towerish.

5 March 2012 17:00
Anonymous said...

susan li is sexy

7 March 2012 10:49
ulaca said...

You wouldn't want to bump off her babes, would you?

7 March 2012 11:17
Foamier said...

She's got a luvly pair of babes.

7 March 2012 16:09
Anonymous said...

She is a real sex bomb and I would like to be there when she goes off!

8 March 2012 15:48
ulaca said...

Be sure to invite Foamie if you ever manage it. He'd love to be there too to watch.

8 March 2012 16:30
Anonymous said...

Foamie is invited along with his friend Fumier but they will have to bring their own baby oil and tissues

23 March 2012 00:18
Foamier said...

Times are hard - it's peanut oil and kitchen roll these days, chaps.

23 March 2012 09:29
Anonymous said...

If they are up for it I may ask the 2 F's to help light the fuse

24 March 2012 21:53

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