"I. STEPHEN MARGOLIS" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> "Utilitarian bioethics is born of the interest in that which is
> most useful for society."
>
> What an incredible phrase!  So filled with contradictions and
> sinister, deadly, implications.  One example for now: couple
> "Utilitarian" with "bioethics (itself an interesting conjunct)"
> and you alter the permissible--mutate and mute the grounds for
> discussion--measure, weigh, value, and otherwise execute
> people.  That is, conditioning human life as other than to be
> nurtured preserved and sacred, turning sanctuary into slaughter
> house.
>
> Translation: "We" live "you" die.
>
> Remarkable how persistent the recurrence of "genocide" by any
> other name, whatever era, whatever scope of human suffering and
> experience shows the tragic folly and shame of such attempts.
> Have some decided train cars and concentration camps, ethnic
> cleansing and bullets, are too brutal and blatant for a modern
> technologically advanced "civilization?"  Do some seek a kinder
> gentler quieter permissive methodology and rationale, oh brave
> new world?
>
> Pathetic and toxic the arrogance and ideology, the insularity
> and selfishness, of a lapsed "elite."  That any logical
> progression or reduction in their thinking and action fails
> collapse of its own absurdity, owes much to the power,
> authority, and means vested with the powerful to wreak their
> vision, death, and damage on those unfortunately targeted.
>
> The fascination with perfection lives on in the human mind;
> ever the grim, dark, downside of Prometheus unbound.
>
> Good to see Princeton students rallying for decency: there's
> hope and remedy in motion, a worthy future generation.  Let's
> this old man know his good works too live and regenerate.
>
> Thank you, Betty, for your contribution.
>
> ISM

Hear, hear, ism - always thought Heracles was a couple of slices
light of a full loaf.

--
Deri James