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EPISODE · Nov 13, 2006 · 6 MIN

Are We Defining A Brave New Future Where All Human Life Is Not Protected?

from What It Means to Be Human · host Wesley Smith

Are we headed for a brave new world where unconscious people are treated as if they were simply biological machines? Wesley warns that we maybe headed down that path, even though today most people believe “that treating people as mere things violates the intrinsic dignity of the individual and the equal moral worth of all human life.” And yet prominent bioethicists and philosophers are contemplating, and even championing, ideas and legislation that could lead to a bleak future where human exceptionalism is ignored.

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