On the acquittal of Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood has been acquitted. Of course.
Body parts of aborted babies can be legally sold to research institutions.
The basis for that is a utilitarian understanding of ethics, which weighs grievances against alleviations, as opposed to a taboo understanding of ethics, which asks whether any man should be doing a specific act based on how it feels.
The latter claims that there never is a greater good than that which flows from man closely following his moral instincts. Damascius gives the earliest example of this beknown to me at the end of The death of Hypatia, where he suggests that the Roman Empire itself might fall over failing to answer an outrage committed by a bishop - a suggestion he then later turned into history.
Which one of the two ethical understandings a society adheres to is of course one of the most fundamental expressions of free will and free opinion and as such cannot be judged by any single entity, but must be the subject of social consensus, which might or might not require social discourse over the matter.
Arguably the utilitarian understanding of ethics relishes social discourse more than the taboo understanding of ethics does, but these are not absolute positions as the case in question, the selling of baby parts by Planned Parenthood, demonstrates.
So I shall not comment on the appropriateness of the use of baby parts in medical research.
Criticism of Planned Parenthood becomes substantial only on the reimbursement issue. Improper reimbursement can cause considerable problems, as the 6% of the seignorage reimbursement of the FED demonstrates in another field. But in contrast to the latter case, where improper reimbursement has led to unsavoury control over world-wide investment, Planned Parenthood's case is the usual You won't bite the hand that feeds you, or will you? as it is commonplace in the treatment of so called public servants. And yes, in case of the FED it really isn't the usual You won't bite the hand that feeds you, or will you?, it's a tactical alliance of predators, but that just as an aside.
In other words, Planned Parenthood is being motivated to be uncritical of research requests, pretty much in the same way that Swiss banks are being motivated to be uncritical of cash deposits. And this time both of them play the same role, namely that of the rubber hitting the road, they are the ones that transfer a scheme into reality, without Planned Parenthood no base material, without Swiss banks no reliability, because what good is wealth, if someone can take it away from you and worst of all legally?
So unless you're Tony Montana you'll gladly reimburse the legs that you're standing on generously. That way they learn to accept that they are your legs and you've got one worry less.
It's finding ones place in the food-chain, really. However, utilitarian ethics don't usually accept money as the measure of grievances and alleviations and therein lie many conflicts between the organic growth of economic dependencies and the planned greater good.
So what makes a system a system of corruption? Double standards? So that you can always choose the standard that is more convenient? Certainly a key ingredient, if of a very general nature. Regarding the marriage of capitalism and utilitarian ethics it's the understanding and willingness to shape incentives that makes the difference. It does appear that America has lost its way there over the course of the last two centuries, partially due to the readiness to be bought, but to a far greater extend, if you count the heads of its victims, due to the hubris of the idea that you can shape politically without having learned how to carve, a general disinterest in statics, an overly comfortable role as the consumer, who has everything made for him by other people.
Truth be spoken, it is wise that the American elites turn on the American citizens, because the sort of baby dictator that the American public was devolving into would have assuredly wrecked the planet. So in the face of adversity political awareness is being reborn.
Body parts of aborted babies can be legally sold to research institutions.
The basis for that is a utilitarian understanding of ethics, which weighs grievances against alleviations, as opposed to a taboo understanding of ethics, which asks whether any man should be doing a specific act based on how it feels.
The latter claims that there never is a greater good than that which flows from man closely following his moral instincts. Damascius gives the earliest example of this beknown to me at the end of The death of Hypatia, where he suggests that the Roman Empire itself might fall over failing to answer an outrage committed by a bishop - a suggestion he then later turned into history.
Which one of the two ethical understandings a society adheres to is of course one of the most fundamental expressions of free will and free opinion and as such cannot be judged by any single entity, but must be the subject of social consensus, which might or might not require social discourse over the matter.
Arguably the utilitarian understanding of ethics relishes social discourse more than the taboo understanding of ethics does, but these are not absolute positions as the case in question, the selling of baby parts by Planned Parenthood, demonstrates.
So I shall not comment on the appropriateness of the use of baby parts in medical research.
Criticism of Planned Parenthood becomes substantial only on the reimbursement issue. Improper reimbursement can cause considerable problems, as the 6% of the seignorage reimbursement of the FED demonstrates in another field. But in contrast to the latter case, where improper reimbursement has led to unsavoury control over world-wide investment, Planned Parenthood's case is the usual You won't bite the hand that feeds you, or will you? as it is commonplace in the treatment of so called public servants. And yes, in case of the FED it really isn't the usual You won't bite the hand that feeds you, or will you?, it's a tactical alliance of predators, but that just as an aside.
In other words, Planned Parenthood is being motivated to be uncritical of research requests, pretty much in the same way that Swiss banks are being motivated to be uncritical of cash deposits. And this time both of them play the same role, namely that of the rubber hitting the road, they are the ones that transfer a scheme into reality, without Planned Parenthood no base material, without Swiss banks no reliability, because what good is wealth, if someone can take it away from you and worst of all legally?
So unless you're Tony Montana you'll gladly reimburse the legs that you're standing on generously. That way they learn to accept that they are your legs and you've got one worry less.
It's finding ones place in the food-chain, really. However, utilitarian ethics don't usually accept money as the measure of grievances and alleviations and therein lie many conflicts between the organic growth of economic dependencies and the planned greater good.
So what makes a system a system of corruption? Double standards? So that you can always choose the standard that is more convenient? Certainly a key ingredient, if of a very general nature. Regarding the marriage of capitalism and utilitarian ethics it's the understanding and willingness to shape incentives that makes the difference. It does appear that America has lost its way there over the course of the last two centuries, partially due to the readiness to be bought, but to a far greater extend, if you count the heads of its victims, due to the hubris of the idea that you can shape politically without having learned how to carve, a general disinterest in statics, an overly comfortable role as the consumer, who has everything made for him by other people.
Truth be spoken, it is wise that the American elites turn on the American citizens, because the sort of baby dictator that the American public was devolving into would have assuredly wrecked the planet. So in the face of adversity political awareness is being reborn.
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