"Killing, Shmilling", Say Eggheads

Ew-w-w-w-w-w...

From BioEdge - Is it morally wrong to take a life? Not really, say bioethicists;

In view of well-publicised organ shortages, transplant surgeons are eager to increase the number of available organs.

 

Yeah, I'll bet.

[T]he dead donor rule is routinely violated in the contemporary practice of vital organ donation. Consistency with traditional medical ethics would entail that this kind of vital organ donation must cease immediately. This outcome would, however, be extremely harmful and unreasonable from an ethical point of view [because patients who could be saved will die]. Luckily, it is easily obviated by abandoning the norm against killing.

Well, I'll be durned! Mankind has just been all turned around on this issue all along! Killing is really nothing to get all worked up over. Some guys with degrees have said so. People smarter than you.

Ain't the New Math just terrific?

(a tip of the crumpled fedora to Eric Waltemate via Facebook)