Once upon a time, a discipline called "medical ethics" existed and was held in high regard. Medical ethics addressed the subjects of triage and best use of sparse resources in medicine: who to save when you cannot save everyone? New advances in medicine were welcomed and enthusiastically funded, because new and better medical technology meant improvements in health, lifespan and the ability to save more lives.
Somewhere along the way, overstressed, under funded medical ethics - a discipline whose members welcomed new medicines, new therapies and better ways to treat disease - became fat, well-funded "bioethics." Bioethics is concerned with slowing down the advance of medical science with deep philosophical and ethical questions that can only be answered by means of large salaries, hundred million dollar buildings, and political interventions.
In short, medical ethics lost its way and become corrupted by power.
Bioethicists also prevent horrible, wrong, scary things from happening. They may get paid, but most jobs pay, chances are none of them are doing it for the money.
They may not be doing it for the money, but if they want to keep getting paid to do it, they have to keep finding (or "finding") problems (or "problems"). If you want to see where the problems are, follow the incentives.
Bioethics is steeped in Utilitarianism. It's nothing new. The Nuremburg ethics addressed this problem years ago. The Nazi's were all about survival of the fittest, (in their case, themselves). who are these modern day philosophers who try to mandate morals? Who are these self-proclaimed ethicists who decide which are persons, and which are non persons? Why is it only a small percentage of doctors today swear by the Hypocratic oath? The discussion of medical ethics is the first step to policy change. We are in that stage ladies and gentlemen. The next stage is of course, killing disabled children and adults, the mentally ill, and probably, those with acne as their equity to society is negotiable at best.
They are monsters and deserve imprisonment. But of course, a secular nation such as ours can produce nothing less, can we?
Quoth carly: "Bioethicists also prevent horrible, wrong, scary things from happening."
The operative word is "scary". Bioethics is Romantic fear of science, systematized. It's not sense, it's panic, and like a panicking horse the bioethicist runs into the burning barn, by turning away from knowledge and towards willful ignorance.
I regard the practitioners of bioethics as my personal enemies - they're as inimical to my life and health as the smallpox virus.
"We are in that stage ladies and gentlemen. The next stage is of course, killing disabled children and adults, the mentally ill, and probably, those with acne as their equity to society is negotiable at best."
Oh please. Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc or, perhaps, the slippery slope. Wanting to improve the gene pool doesn't mean that people will start killing people. That's logically equal to saying that people will start killing people out of addiction because they will do so in a video game, which obviously isn't true.
Bioethicists are responsible for a 10 year rollback on everyone's life expectancy.
Once again, it's interesting to note that humans are so vain and egotistical as to believe that they know better than nature how to "improve the gene pool." I'd say nature and natural selection has done a wonderful job for humans thus far.
PS - Humans need to get old and die. Seriously, what makes you people think that you are better than the new children waiting to start utilizing your resources. Please to die.
It's funny how LITTLE you actually understand the interdisciplinary field of medicine and bioethics. People like you who generalize and stereotype an entire professional field only make yourselves look like 'uneducated fools.'
You are simply unable to examine and truly understand the ethical principles of medical practice and how they are deeply ingrained into the philosophy of medicine and society, as a whole.
I want to advance medicine as much as you, but what you fail to understand is the repercussions of certain research protocols. Without bioethics, there would be no rules or regulations to safeguard patient autonomy.
Without bioethics, we would not be able to see where and when to draw the line on controversial issues. And without bioethics, medical scientists would conduct surgical transplants and illegal medical procedures without proper consent of the law.
Next time, read a few books on the topic before you write. It'll make you seem only..... half as dumb.
Try it.
Amen Joel
My dear humans! Bioethics is become and important issue in this era. The most important things is the life of human beings . We have to solve the new issues , the only way is research for these issues e.g ( transplantation of organs ).
Transplantation of organ is an ethical issue , the most important solution is (stem cell embryogenesis ). For this their should be team of" histologist " for research and they should have sport for all people to solve this huge problem and for the save of thousands of people , which are dying every year.
This is the question of humans life ,,,God bless you .