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Title: The Right Thing To Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy by James Rachels ISBN: 0-07-247691-5 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 14 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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Comment: The section on handicapped babies is atrocious. Rachel's opinionon is that in the end a brainless baby has less worth than one with a brain. He states derisively that if we simply remove our religious "blinkers" we would see the same. Religion is not a windshield my friend. SUch a child wouldn't contribute to society and be economically worthless since nowadays a person who can't contribute to the economy or jobmarket in any way is a brute. However, lets say everyone on earth was eradicated except for one doctor and a bunch of his very able helper robots. Would this doctor want to keep this baby? Because even though it is almost "inhumane" (as Rachels would gladly have put it) the baby would be the only other human being.
Perhaps it's not a question of worth so much as a life of fullness that is attempted by any human that is more the question. Looking at this unselfishly that child would most likely never achieve this. Forget its lack of contributions to society but concentrate on itself and honestly it shouldn't have to live in a condition of pain? anguish? We should not allow it to live. We have a moral responsibility to do this.
The book gave another example about a famous trial with a DOwn Syndrom child who didn't recieve treatment for his treatable intestinal disease. This is another point. Because the child is born with congenital brain damage yet he can experience life and "take away" from it. At the same time the other human population also "takes away" from him, learns to appreciate itself and learns from him. Because humans are life learners, it's only fair if there is an exchange of learning from both parties- between teh handicapped and not. A child born without a brain our a constant brain hemoraging cannot take away from society, yet it can contribute because every still object to the most restless pebble on the surf has something to teach. Yet it wouldn't be fair to it because it wouldn't be able to take away. There must be an exchange of learning, and teaching.
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Title: The Elements of Moral Philosophy with Dictionary of Philosophical Terms by James Rachels ISBN: 007282574X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 17 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $33.40 |
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Title: Moral Philosophy: A Reader by Louis P. Pojman ISBN: 0872206610 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Introductory Ethics by Fred Feldman ISBN: 0135017831 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 02 January, 1978 List Price(USD): $69.33 |
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Title: Ethics (Oxford Readers) by Peter Singer ISBN: 0192892452 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Bioethical Issues by Carol Levine ISBN: 0072868872 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin Pub. Date: 09 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.30 |
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