> Why should we allow self appointed "biomedical ethicists" to dictate what interventions we can use? …We don’t? Nobody does? Ethicists aren’t cops. Nobody get

> Why should we allow self appointed "biomedical ethicists" to dictate what interventions we can use? …We don’t? Nobody does? Ethicists aren’t cops. Nobody gets arrested by the ethics police or thrown into ethics jail. They have opinions which are then either ignored or supported by somebody in a political or managerial position. Why would we give cover to the people that actually make decisions about laws by pretending that some stuffy academics are omnipotent? edit: > If we allow parents to destroy embryos, why is it so controversial to allow them to modify them? There’s an entire profession of people that get hired to debate questions like that, they’re called… ethicists.