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The Deaf community's feelings on things like cochlear implants is the perfect example showing that the whole "ethical side" is pointless philosophical babble.
by chr1 7y ago
The Deaf community's feelings on things like cochlear implants is the perfect example showing that the whole "ethical side" is pointless philosophical babble. How can anyone even think to justify not allowing other people to improve their lives in the name of preserving "a culture"?
The assumption that there are independent physical constraints and ethical side is wrong, because depending on how actually the reality works, the same action can be either the most ethical or most unethical action.
- ceejayoz 7y ago> How can anyone even think to justify not allowing other people to improve their lives in the name of preserving "a culture"? That was the precise attitude that got us scenarios like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schoo... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations.
- chr1 7y agoThe important part in the argument above is allowing people to decide for themselves. The boarding schools were about government "saving" children by not allowing children and their parents to choose. The people who are unhappy about cochlear implants, want to "save" deaf culture by not allowing some other people to choose for themselves whether they want to be death or not. So the similarity is the other around.