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Marrow Sorrow

Reason Staff | 10.29.2003 3:56 AM

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  1. Warren   23 years ago

    Ron's back on his home turf. Good article. Arguing that 'the government should refrain from restricting the peoples freedom' is preferable to 'government should impose my personal ethics on everyone'.

  2. Douglas Fletcher   23 years ago

    Protoplasm politics gives me the creeps. Abortion, euthenasia, stem-cells, yuck, it all makes me want to puke.

    Juat another adult sounding off.

  3. Andy D.   23 years ago

    Doug, you say that now... but when you start suffering from Alzheimer's...

  4. MJ   23 years ago

    "Arguing that 'the government should refrain from restricting the peoples freedom' is preferable to 'government should impose my personal ethics on everyone'."

    Yeah! Can't wait til a Reason contributor takes on those repressive mugging and assault laws. Imagine, restricting a citizen's freedom because some busybody thinks beating the tar out of someone and taking their wallet is "unethical".

    Utilitarian ethics are anti-human and therefore anti-liberty.

  5. Douglas Fletcher   23 years ago

    I'll still have the creeps, I just won't know what the creeps is.

  6. Robert Hutchinson   23 years ago

    No, see, it's only politicizing when you're wrong. When you're right, it's science and common sense.

  7. D.A. Ridgely   23 years ago

    "The continuing struggle over stem cell research highlights the dangers of politicizing biomedical science. Various lines of research should be pursued simultaneously in order to have the best chance of discovering effective future treatments."

    But, umm, Ron, that *is* a political position, isn't it?

  8. Rojas Pablo   22 years ago

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