Just how “gutting” is it? How devastating, how sad, how disempowering?

Christians donate more than other demographics. This is nothing short of weird… Jesus’ raison d’etre was “The spirit of God is in you. Don’t rely on others who call themselves experts…” There is nothing more or less to “his” philosophy than that. I say this historically, and not as a dogma.

Just as it is today, anyone trying to second-guess the expert, or anyone trusting the expert in hopes of being rewarded for his “politeness” and “consideration” will find himself persecuted.

Ethicists have invented for themselves a field of expertise. What is it they know that affords them this elevation from everyone’s basic instincts? The answer should be “we know what it feels like to be harvested for organs while still alive.” But it isn’t. So, so much for that.

Where no one can possibly speak for another, it must not be pretended that they can. Dr Truog’s ethics, for one, can only reflect the issue of healthcare dollars. Who should get the help? In what direction should medical services go? There’s no real human worth awareness here. Only relative human worth and an arbitrary one at that.

If two people are lost in the snow and the moment comes when they start looking at each other as the “next meal” can their thinking processes be called ethics at work? I don’t think it’s anything other than an exercise in justification or a quest to be guilt-free when committing a deed.

Ethics must concern itself with vigorously avoiding as well as impeding any action that presumes another person’s predicament. This kind of “expertise” is heinously precocious. There is no ethic in killing the neurologically impaired. Leave it blank.

Perhaps try instead to educate people to live healthy lives, drive less, have fewer children as a way to control demand on public services etc. Ethics have a place in living people’s lives, not those who cannot provide feedback because they are dead.