[GovernmentShrinker]

A “thought experiment” isn’t a proposal for action.

[angryoldfatman]

A “thought experiment” isn’t a proposal for action.

Except, you know, when it's an exalted, esteemed, credentialed expert in bio-ethics spewing stupid, hypocritical nonsense in a public medium.

Then it's a "thought experiment" in the sense that certain collections of prison wrtings were.

"Oh here's a little thought experiment everyone: how much better off would the world be if we got rid of the Jews and other subhumans taking up all of our precious resources?"

"I was just engaging in a little thought experiment: what if we slowly destroyed the pillars of Western Civilization instead of trying that war and revolution nonsense again? Wouldn't that make the world so much better?"