Heya John,
I think a form of eugenics is practiced in seeking a mate the way a form of
genocide is practiced when someone commits to a vow of chastity.
As for the hypothetical - "with whatever means available". Treating whatever
the child is afflicted with as a problem to fight against in the hopes of a
cure, improvement, and otherwise. And infanticide, like abortion, is not
conditionally limited to 'if the child is in screaming pain and is going to
die soon anyway'.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM, John Burgeson (ASA member) <
hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/19/09, Nucacids <nucacids@wowway.com> wrote:
>
> > As far as moral issues go, I have found that if someone is supportive of
> > eugenics or infanticide, they are almost always an atheist.
>
> Generally -- yes. But like almost all issues, the devil is in the details.
>
> Who among us has not practiced a form of eugenics when seeking our mate?
>
> An infant is born in terrible pain who has litttle time to live. If
> you were the doctor, how would you treat it?
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