i find this Justice Choo opinion smart and right and his
argument is basically along the lines of philosophers.....
i think that the world is mostly filled with people who are not
equipped with sufficient knowledge. the reasons for the lack of
intelligent people are aplenty ranging from poverty, crimes,
technology, materialism and others.
title: law and morality in the age of biosecience
author: the honorable justice choo han teck
some paragraph quotes from straits time paper:
"the central refrain of the book is an encouragment for us to
reflect calmly and logically about bioethical concerns. Here,
justice choo exhorts us to subject all our views - whether secular
or religious - to critical examination. as he puts it : "if,
indeed, there is a star upon which we ought to fix our gaze, that
star must be reason itself." This could not be timelier reminder in
the light of the recent and vigorous debates on organ trading, the
removal of organs upon one's death .........
"....Justice Choo 's call for us to remain objective and to
continually seek proof and analyse such proof without bias or
superstition has application outside the bioehtical realm.
Discrimination, for instance, is often the result of unreflective,
unexamined personal prejudice. As Choo reminds us, "sincerity and
strength of belief are mistaken for objectivity when it is quite
the opposite".
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