[ExI] Morality experts

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Jun 23, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 1:18 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Jun 22, 2020, at 3:57 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is complaining about several promising COVID-19 vaccines because they were manufactured with the help of cells from a fetus that was aborted way back in 1972. It's too bad these experts on morality didn't express the same moral outrage when they heard about sexual abuse of young boys by their priests.
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>>> Vaccines that use human fetal cells draw fire
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>> Why would anyone think them morality experts? (Not saying you do. This is kind of a rhetorical question.)
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> Because they claim to be, and a large number of people (who call themselves Catholics) were brought up to unquestioningly believe they are. 

Of course, but society in general, which in the US is not made up mostly of Catholics, shouldn’t take them at their word on this. This is similar to how if there’s a conference on medicine, the attendees don’t take the idea that faith-healing works even if a segment of the population does.

Regards,

Dan
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