Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts

Mar 24, 2012

No Duh Aristotle

Sometimes bioethics can be really dumb, and yet so disturbingly profound.

No, that last half is profoundly sarcastic.

Here is a fun quote from our Bioethics text:

"Common to all theories of justice is a minimal requirement traditionally attributed to Aristotle: Equals must be treated equally, and unequals must be treated unequally."

NO. WAY.
I think my brain just exploded from the complexity of that statement.


But to be serious for perhaps a paragraph, I really enjoy bioethics. I miss writing things out. Also, it's fun to posit ridiculous arguments. However, I don't know if I'll ever write anything more ridiculous than the following sentence I wrote for a discussion on vaccinations:

"I think we can safely assume that this family is inherently evil."
So get your kids vaccinated!