{"id":941,"date":"2003-06-15T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-15T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=941"},"modified":"2006-06-16T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T15:30:26","slug":"bioethics-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"bioethics IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amygreenwood.blogspot.com\/2003_05_04_amygreenwood_archive.html#200334412\">Amy Greenwood takes on those pestilential &lsquo;bioethicists&rsquo;<\/a> whom I have heckled <a href=\".\/?p=174\">more<\/a> <a href=\".\/?p=265\">than<\/a> <a href=\".\/?p=659\">once<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nYes, if the world is different, we will think about it differently. So what? A worldview in flux is not an ethical problem, and why assume a new one will be inhuman or less profound? Besides, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m less committed to science now that I expect to live to 80 than if I expected to live to 40. In fact, if I had reason to believe I would die at 40, I might as well stop working on difficult problems because I probably wouldn&#8217;t have time to make much progress anyway. So in that way, I may be more committed to my work and to my personal engagements because I expect the long run to be, well, long.<br \/>\n. . . .<br \/>\nAnyway, the idea of living to 200 appeals to me enormously. Wouldn&#8217;t it be fun to have more time to get good, I mean really good, at what you are doing? There are so many languages to learn, books to read, people to talk to . . . in fact, I would distinctly relish a glut of the able. Maybe I&#8217;ll have my grandmother send some cookies over to the Council on Bioethics, because life is just really not that bad.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=http:\/\/charlesmurtaugh.blogspot.com\/2003_06_01_charlesmurtaugh_archive.html#200400914>Charles Murtaugh<\/a> for a link.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Greenwood takes on those pestilential &lsquo;bioethicists&rsquo; whom I have heckled more than once. Yes, if the world is different, we will think about it differently. So what? A worldview in flux is not an ethical problem, and why assume &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=941\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luddites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}