[ExI] Morality experts

[Adrian Tymes]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 4:24 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> Vaccines that use human fetal cells draw fire
>> <https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6496/1170?rss=1>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>

Agreed, but you were asking about "anyone", not society in general.  ;)
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