Two “kill all the dumb people” posts in one week? What are the odds?
Human embryos should be screened for their potential intelligence and only the smartest allowed to live, an Oxford University ethicist has argued.
In shocking remarks, Prof Julian Savulescu says embryos that do not pass the intelligence test should be destroyed for the good of society.
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The Australian Professor is the Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and claims that it is our “moral obligation” to use IVF to choose the most intelligent embryos.
As Mark Shea puts it, “I’m noticing a distinct lack of enthusiasm among these people for screening smart ethicists and killing the rest of them: a proposal for which there are much stronger arguments.”