I have underestimated President Obama.
Today he announced that we can experiment on human beings and even create new humans for our experimentation.
The good news is that he made this decision based only on science. Politics, vile nasty politics, had nothing to do with his decision.
Evidently President Obama has discovered a way to derive ethics from science! This is amazing and only confirms the main stream media sense that President Obama is a Special Person.
Most thinkers have believed that from “is” or “can” (”It is the case that people want to do x” or “It is the case that we can do x”) it was hard or impossible to get “ought,” but Obama has done it!
We can experiment on humans so we should! We want to experiment on humans so we should!
How simple! How convenient! How non-political! There are NO philosophical assumptions at play here what so ever. Praise be we have entered a non-ideological age.
Praise Moloch we have entered a new age where scientists will no longer have to think about ethics before they do experiments. They will get to do whatever science tells them to do and science (without any politics or ethics!) will magically speak to them about what should be done.
Over the petri dish the experiment will say, “We are good and noble, please continue this experiment!” and the scientist will know vox science, vox dei.
I see no possible problems with this! Do you?
If so then you are divisive, political, and a wing-nut.