"Quality of Life" -- Its Bioethical Downside

[WanderAimlessly]

Interesting:

"Quality of Life" – Its Bioethical Downside
Interview With Philosopher José Serrano

MADRID, Spain, JAN. 9, 2006 (Zenit.org).- “Quality of life” is not the same as “dignity of the person,” a juridical challenge that bioethics must elucidate, says a philosopher of law.

José Miguel Serrano Ruiz-Calderón has written a book on this subject entitled “Juridical Challenges of Bioethics” (Eunsa), in which he addresses the moral challenges posed by biotechnology.

The author is professor of philosophy of law at Madrid’s Complutense University and academic director of the Institute of Marketing Studies. He was an adviser of the Spanish Ministry of Justice and a member of his country’s delegation to the U.N. agreement on cloning.

Full Story

PF

 

[Agricola]

I’ve never understood why people value the “quality of life” statistics. The criteria for determining quality of life puts me nearly at the bottom, but I am happier than many people I know, who live in the upper echelon of society. Maybe we should form our own “quality of life” criteria… the UN model seems to be a little warped.

The dignity of the human person has been set aside I believe. At my university there are people who don’t recognize that there is intrinsic value in human life, nor do they recognize that man has a dignity above that of any other form of life. I think it’s sad really. Denying human dignity altogether has become a new argument for the perversions of society and the atrocities committed against unwanted innocents.

At some point a full-out ideological war needs to be waged.

God bless,

Agricola