Love of Money and All Kinds of Evil

"If it can be done, then why not do it?" appears to be the motto of many scientists and medical researchers. One area in which this type of thinking is moving ahead is that of doing facial transplants. Doctors at the University of Louisville in the US are planning on carrying out a facial transplant, despite the many ethical, moral, and physical impacts that such a transplant could have.

Of course, they have consulted with professional "ethicists" about all this before doing it.

As far as I can tell, the purpose of an ethicist is to move us from point A to point Z in small enough increments we are comfortable with to give us the illusion that we have actually measured our proposed actions against the Law Order of the Universe. Of course, no one asks the ethicists what their presuppositional basis is that guides their decisions on the morality of doing a proposed action.

In the end, pragmatism rules the day, just as it does in our churches and in every other arena you care to mention.

Do I sound cynical? I feel it.