Posted on 08/16/2025 6:08:36 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
ABSTRACT
The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but nonfatal red meat allergy. Public health departments warn against lone star ticks and AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS. Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible. After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tickborne AGS is a moral bioenhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat. We then defend what we call the Convergence Argument: If x-ing prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, doesn't violate anyone's rights, and promotes virtuous action or character, then x-ing is strongly pro tanto obligatory; promoting tickborne AGS satisfies each of these conditions. Therefore, promoting tickborne AGS is strongly pro tanto obligatory. It is presently feasible to genetically edit the disease-carrying capacity of ticks. If this practice can be applied to ticks carrying AGS, then promoting the proliferation of tickborne AGS is morally obligatory.
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Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth are nutters.
Well, guys, where your “Convergence Argument” fails in this case is the doesn’t-violate-anyone’s-rights part. That condition is not met.
“...then efforts to prevent the spread of tickborne AGS are also morally impermissible.”
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Using “morally impermissible” as a pseudo-scientific argument is in itself morally impermissible.
heh
Oh the irony of hypocrisy.
I wonder how the authors of this article feel about contending that stopping HIV is “morally impermissible” because gay sex is morally impermissible.
Wackos.
These wackos belong in a rubber-padded cell within an insane asylum, NOT wondering about in society spewing forth BS like this...
Nuttier than a fruitcake....
What d’you bet they’re vegans?
Wow. Crutchfield and Hereth are just one small step short of going full Luigi Mangione, and arguing that it’s pro tanto obligatory to shoot a-holes like themselves in the back of the head, to prevent their harming anyone else.
And they are the types who would go to Texas and pick up some ticks and spread them around the woods in area where they do not presently exist just to help the little guys out.
Several years back this same Crutchfield argued that covert, compulsory “moral enhancement” should be used to alter the neurological inclinations of certain populations, e.g., criminally-inclined or sexually promiscuous segments of the population. Or perhaps to disable that pesky “god gene” that causes people to adopt religious beliefs.
I won’t take that bet, and I like my steaks medium rare.😁
A couple of Commie scumbags.
And birth control and abortion are morally impermissable. Let’s start with the human race. Deal with livestock later.
Livestock are not equivalent to humans, no matter your opinion. Stop using leather, birth conttol, killing your innocent children.
Waste of time.
That is not in dispute.
not just nutters but mortal enemies of anything decent and human
>>Wiley online library: Parker Crutchfield, Blake Hereth<<
Nazi control freaks.
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