In response to the Skúli Sigurdsson article,

nancy_1 — Tue, 08 Apr 2003 00:00:00 +0100

To take a quote from article: “In an interview in EMBO Reports in the fall of 2001, Dr Stefánsson was quoted as saying: ‘I think that the more knowledge we have, the more opportunity we have to make intelligent choices, and the better society will be. I am absolutely convinced of that.’” I’m not sure if this is utilitarianism gone mad, sincere arrogance, or both. Dr Stefánsson quite clearly needs the guidance of ‘people from universities’ to define for him, ethically, the correct interpretation of “we”, “intelligent choices” and “better” in this statement. (I refer to the quote: “Ethics was a scholarly discipline, but now we have people from universities telling other people what they should do, which I think is dangerous. That is something that society has to do”). Read the rest of this post...

open Democracy News Analysis - In response to the Sk&uacute;li Sigurdsson article, - Comments

In response to the Skúli Sigurdsson article,

open Democracy News Analysis - In response to the Skúli Sigurdsson article, - Comments