For years, the “bioethicists” have been telling us that conscience is just another personally held belief that gets in the way of what they want us to do.
The irony, as Mad Dawg has pointed out, is that the author puts on a moral, “right thing,” “ought” argument, herself.
We “ought” to do something — but what is the basis of “ought”?
Law? law varies by region, local preferences and customs, and sometimes by the whim of a dictator, someone with a gun or an oligarchy representing itself as the judiciary.
At Obama’s last presser, he was asked to explain how his morality enabled him to overturn the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. He completely failed in his answer, which boiled down to, “It’s the right thing to do.”
Bob Dylan sang about this a long time ago
“They say what’s up is down
They say what isn’t is.
They put ideas in his head, he thought were his.
They took a clean cut kid
And they made a killer out of him
Is what they did.”