When Medical Ethicists Think Too Hard

“Is it really morally wrong to kill someone? That question, strange enough on its own, is downright bizarre when it’s asked in the Journal of Medical Ethics. In ‘What makes killing wrong?’, a paper in the Journal‘s January issue, [two scholars] argue that there isn’t, fundamentally, anything wrong with killing another person. Killing is only incidentally bad because of one of its consequences: ‘total disability’.”