now the philosophy professors embrace the slippery slope - at least they do in my deparment. Fetuses, newborns, mentally retarded people, comatose, senile - none are "normative agents" and thus have no right to life. This is the accepted train of thought among professional ethicists today :(
How about providing us with some arguments for the 'slippery slope' theory?
The argument that if I eat junkfood once a year, there will be a time that I eat junkfood five times a day?
The argument that if I swear once, I'll kill twenty people once?
Incredible. You have some mighty fine schools in the US. Congratulations!
The discrimination against "imperfect people" goes all the way back to the Levitical commandments in the Bible, that people with physical disabilities be barred from the Temple.
Bump!
Makes Kavorkian look almost sane. NOT!