Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for August 06, 2015
August 05, 2015
August 07, 2015
Transcript:
Ethics: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Bioethics... Are these others other enough that I can do unto them what I don't want done unto me?
Tell the truth, now. Read a magazine like “National Geographic,” with pictures of a wide variety of nationalities and cultures, and with sometimes bizarre (to me, at least) facial features and costume. Would you be comfortable going right up to them to shake their hands or give them a hug? I try not to be xenophobic, but it’s a struggle.. Imagine how proudly chauvinistic nations with an added competitive business need for colonies and native workers behaved. They had to purposely de-humanize the cultures they enslaved. And maybe those feelings continue to this day. .Yes, it’s easy to be fair with people that look like your family and culture. Others are not – quite – right. Is this one of those embedded human feelings that served a purpose in the past but no longer? Or, do they still serve a purpose?
gammaguy over 9 years ago
Remember: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” does not mean you should try to save a fish from drowning.
Ida No over 9 years ago
If they’re cloned or test tubed, they have no souls. So, yeah, knock yourself out.
emptc12 over 9 years ago
Tell the truth, now. Read a magazine like “National Geographic,” with pictures of a wide variety of nationalities and cultures, and with sometimes bizarre (to me, at least) facial features and costume. Would you be comfortable going right up to them to shake their hands or give them a hug? I try not to be xenophobic, but it’s a struggle.. Imagine how proudly chauvinistic nations with an added competitive business need for colonies and native workers behaved. They had to purposely de-humanize the cultures they enslaved. And maybe those feelings continue to this day. .Yes, it’s easy to be fair with people that look like your family and culture. Others are not – quite – right. Is this one of those embedded human feelings that served a purpose in the past but no longer? Or, do they still serve a purpose?
emptc12 over 9 years ago
I didn’t take the comment as a negative criticism.
Ida No over 9 years ago
Dictionary definition.