Why Bioethics Should "Fail"

Julian Savulescu represents all that I find so objectionable about the mainstream bioethics movement.

Rejecting the sanctity/equality of human life, utilitarian in outlook, embracing a eugenics point of view, the Oxford professor -- what does that tell you? -- would lead society in a way opposed by most of the very peoplebioethics claims to serve.

Savulescu "gets" that the field has not swept all before it -- to which I would add, not for lack of trying. But he is clueless as to why that should...