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Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony?
The article examines five controversial views, expressed in Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer’s Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva’s “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”, Julian Savulescu’s “Pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36566305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11017-022-09604-0 |
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description | The article examines five controversial views, expressed in Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer’s Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva’s “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”, Julian Savulescu’s “Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children”, and the author’s “A rational cure for prereproductive stress syndrome”. These views have similarities and differences on five levels: the grievances they raise, the proposals they make, the justifications they explicitly use, the justifications they implicitly rely on, and the criticisms that they have encountered. A comparison of these similarities and differences produces two findings. First, some controversial views based on utilitarian considerations would probably fare better flipped upside down and presented as Juvenalian satires. Secondly, a modicum of humor or modesty could help presenters of controversial views to stir polite critical discussion on the themes that they put forward. |
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spelling | pubmed-100304042023-03-23 Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? Häyry, Matti Theor Med Bioeth Article The article examines five controversial views, expressed in Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer’s Should the Baby Live? The Problem of Handicapped Infants, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva’s “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”, Julian Savulescu’s “Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children”, and the author’s “A rational cure for prereproductive stress syndrome”. These views have similarities and differences on five levels: the grievances they raise, the proposals they make, the justifications they explicitly use, the justifications they implicitly rely on, and the criticisms that they have encountered. A comparison of these similarities and differences produces two findings. First, some controversial views based on utilitarian considerations would probably fare better flipped upside down and presented as Juvenalian satires. Secondly, a modicum of humor or modesty could help presenters of controversial views to stir polite critical discussion on the themes that they put forward. Springer Netherlands 2022-12-24 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10030404/ /pubmed/36566305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11017-022-09604-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Häyry, Matti Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? |
title | Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? |
title_full | Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? |
title_fullStr | Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? |
title_full_unstemmed | Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? |
title_short | Are some controversial views in bioethics Juvenalian satire without irony? |
title_sort | are some controversial views in bioethics juvenalian satire without irony? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36566305 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11017-022-09604-0 |
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