Stephen Pinker attacks the President's Council on Bioethics in a new article in the New Republic. He criticizes the idea of "dignity," propounded by the Coucil, as a "squishy, subjective notion, hardly up to the heavyweight moral demands assigned to it." In its stead, he proposes a reliance on "personal autonomy," the firmness and objectivity of which he never actually defends in the article.
It's getting a lot of attention and criticism. More on it later.
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Martin's link doesn't work.
Try this one:
http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=d8731cf4-e87b-4d88-b7e7-f5059cd0bfbd&p=1
Interesting how supporters of stem cell research were "Expelled" from the President's Council.
Yuval Levin contests that claim in his response, which I posted today.
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