tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665560.post7245736089549399645..comments2023-09-20T14:09:35.150+02:00Comments on Credo ut intelligam: Eine SchandeScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01143321453756472882noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665560.post-60466884489479786522009-03-16T21:51:00.000+01:002009-03-16T21:51:00.000+01:00Hähähä. Andernorts hat er sich sehr ausführlich "z...Hähähä. Andernorts hat er sich sehr ausführlich "zu det Janze" geäußert:<BR/><BR/>“A bioethicist is to ethics what a whore is to sex.” That judgment by a friend who was once viewed as a pioneer of bioethics may seem somewhat harsh, but it is not entirely off the mark. This really happened: Some years ago I was on a panel at the big annual economic conference in Davos, Switzerland. Also on the panel was Nobel Laureate James Watson, then head of the Human Genome Project. I and a few others—well, I think it was one other—were pressing moral questions about the technological manipulation of human nature. Impatient with that line of inquiry, Dr. Watson—who seems not only to subscribe to but to devoutly celebrate what Jacques Ellul called the Technological Imperative—explained that nobody should worry about the morality of what they were doing since the project had allocated millions of additional dollars “to get the best ethicists that money can buy.”<BR/><BR/>http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=1985<BR/><BR/>Das Schlusszitat habe ich schon ziemlich oft angeführt...Lupambulus Berolinen.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16734359484111844881noreply@blogger.com