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kennyc · 04-10-2011, 08:36 AM

"We have this idea--it's almost a fetish--that progress is its own justification, that if something is promising, then how can we not rush to relieve suffering?"
-- Paul Root Wolpe, medical ethicist at Emory University

04-10-2011, 08:36 AM	#1485
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,922 Karma: 119747553 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2 & PW, Onyx Boox Go6	"We have this idea--it's almost a fetish--that progress is its own justification, that if something is promising, then how can we not rush to relieve suffering?" -- Paul Root Wolpe, medical ethicist at Emory University