[Virginia Queen]

Would you love to be a fly on the wall if this person were ever to find himself as one of these "nonpeople"? I bet he would be singing a different tune.

[cvq3842]

Chilling. this reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode I saw decades ago. Now it's coming true . . .

[advance_copy]

...what matters is whether “a being” or “an organism,” or even a machine, is a “person,” a status achieved by having sufficient cognitive capacities. Those who don’t measure up are denigrated as “non-persons.”

I wonder how far these people are from deciding those they call "the religious right" don't have "significant cognitive capacities".

[trisham]

Are there any bioethicists who actually advocate ethical treatment of human beings? Just curious.

[tucker93]

Sounds strangely close to the way the Nazis thought about people in similar life situations!

[smoothsailing]

Why is it so many of these bioethicists come across as charter members of the Hemlock Society?

[MarMema]

I always love Wesley.

[TASMANIANRED]

Like everything through the leftist looking glass, ethics is upside down.

They should name it anti-ethics.

[Orca]

If this is what "Bio-ethicists" believe, they are misnamed as far as I'm concerned. They should be more aptly called "Bio-ghouls" because ghoulish behavior is where their purported "ethics" is taking us.

[cvq3842]

PS So some humans are not "people?" Are we going back to the Dred Scott decision? I thought the 14th Amendment addressed that.

[Orca]

If this is what "Bio-ethicists" believe, they are misnamed as far as I'm concerned. They should be more aptly called "Bio-ghouls" because ghoulish behavior is where their purported "ethics" is taking us.

[tomahawk]

Nazis in our midst.

Be afraid.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Again.

Apply a strict test of the "law"....

If I walked in and cut her throat open, I would be arrested and prosecuted for murder.

If I walked in and gave her a drink of water, I'd be arrested and prosecuted for "life" ....

Judge Greer is the murderer, with Felos his coach and able assistant, cheerleader, and consultant. Micheal, an aiding and willing party to their crimes.

[YOUGOTIT]

If you have seen or read about the German Film (I Accuser) I think that is the title. This same philosophy was the basis for killing non humans. The file was used by the Nazi to get a court ruling that allowed Hitler to order the killing of a baby that was born with birth defects. And those of us who have read real history know where it went from there. (7,000,000 Dead) The Communist did not even bother and Joe and the boys killed over 30,000,000. So looks as though history may be repeating itself.

[BellStar]

Bill is a twit!

[Edgerunner]

Heartless. Mercy is lost on these people without souls. Satanists all...They should be doing everything they can to stay alive. I don't think they will like what happens when they die. If they believe there is no God, or existence after death, then that is what they will get. ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE...

[Treader]

Yes, it takes a village to kill a child, and a blind judge to decree it is so...

[chimera]

It's a logical extension of the pro-abortion attitudes and legalization. It was only a matter of time when the death squads would no longer be satisfied with slaughtering the unborn, but would then come for those already born.

It goes to the heart of what I have always said, first in the context of abortion, and now, the pending extermination of "useless eaters" and "life unworthy of life". And that is, whenever a people insist on subjecting the designation of one's humanity to narrow definitions of one sort or another, the result can only be measureless destruction.

[nightdriver]

"No, I do not. I think having awareness is an essential criterion for personhood...."

Oh! I get it!

People loose their "personhood" when they fall asleep!

That makes it easy. (/sarc.)

[Joe 6-pack]

"No, I do not. I think having awareness is an essential criterion for personhood. Even minimal awareness would support some criterion of personhood, but I don't think complete absence of awareness does."

We'd all best be sleeping with one eye open.