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Zur Hölle mit dem Penner. Das war das einzige was von Ihm einigermaßen publik wurde und das nur aus der Sensationsgeilheit der Bauern. Er ist dabei sich ununterbrochen zu beweihräuchern, welch ein gottfrommer Mensch er doch ist. Ficken kann sich der verlogene Bastard. Allein schon zu Beginn des Buches verzettelt er sich in seiner eigenen Mißgunst. Ich lese den Scheiß bis mein Gehalt kommt und ich mir was vernünftiges holen kann. Verdammter, schwülstiger Heuchler.
This article explores the possibility that there is a parental duty to use preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for the medical benefit of future children. Using one genetic disorder as a paradigmatic example, we find that such a duty can be supported in some situations on both ethical and legal grounds. Our analysis shows that an ethical case in favor of this position can be made when potential parents are aware that a possible future child is at substantial risk of inheriting a serious genetic condition. We further argue that a legal case for a duty to use PGD for medical benefit can be made in situations in which potential parents have chosen to conceive through in vitro fertilization and know that any children conceived are at substantial risk of having a serious genetic condition.
While eating red meat with added emetic (a substance that induces vomiting) could be used as an aversion conditioning, anyone not strongly committed to giving up red meat is unlikely to be attracted to this option. A more realistic option might be to induce mild intolerance (akin, e.g., to milk intolerance) to these kinds of meat. While meat intolerance is normally uncommon (Aparicio et al. 2005), in principle, it could be induced by stimulating the immune system against common bovine proteins. The immune system would then become primed to react to such proteins, and henceforth eating ‘eco-unfriendly’ food would induce unpleasant experiences. Even if the effects do not last a lifetime, the learning effect is likely to persist for a long time. A potentially safe and practical way of delivering such intolerance may be to produce ‘meat’ patches – akin to nicotine patches. We can produce patches for those animals that contribute the most to greenhouse gas emissions and encourage people to use such patches.
A way to reduce ecological footprints, then, would be to reduce size. Since weight increases with the cube of length, even a small reduction in, e.g., height, might produce a significant effect in size, other things being equal (To reduce size, one could also try to reduce average weight or average weight and height, but to keep the discussion simple, we shall use just the example of height). Reducing the average US height by 15 cm would mean a mass reduction of 23% for men and 25% for women, with a corresponding reduction of metabolic rate (15%/18%), since less tissue means lower nutrients and energy needs.
One way is through preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). While genetic modifications to control height are likely to be quite complex and beyond our current capacities, it nevertheless seems possible now to use PGD to select shorter children. This would not involve intervening to change the genetic material of embryos, or employing any clinical methods not currently used. It would simply involve rethinking the criteria for selecting which embryos to implant.
Another method of affecting height is to use hormone treatment either to affect somatotropin levels or to trigger the closing of the epiphyseal plate earlier than normal (this sometimes occurs accidentally through vitamin A overdoses (Rothenberg et al. 2007)). Hormone treatments are used for growth reduction in excessively tall children (Bramswig et al. 1988; Grüters et al. 1989). Currently, somatostatin (an inhibitor of growth hormone) is being studied as a safer alternative (Hindmarsh et al. 1995).
Finally, a more speculative and controversial way of reducing adult height is to reduce birth weight. There is a correlation between birth weight and adult height (Sorensen et al. 1999), according to which birth weight at the lower edge of the normal distribution tends to result in the adult’s being ≈5 cm shorter. Birth height has an even stronger effect for adult height. If one is born at the lower edge of the normal distribution of height, this tends to produce ≈15 cm shorter adult height. Gene imprinting has been found to affect birth size, as a result of evolutionary competition between paternally and maternally imprinted genes (Burt and Trivers 2006). Drugs or nutrients that either reduce the expression of paternally imprinted genes, or increase the expression of maternally imprinted genes, could potentially regulate birth size.
In 2008, John Guillebaud, an emeritus professor of family planning and reproductive health at University College London, and Dr Pip Hayes, a general practitioner from Exeter, pointed out that ‘each UK birth will be responsible for 160 times more greenhouse gas emissions … than a new birth in Ethiopia’ ((Guillebaud and Hayes 2008): 576). As a way to mitigate climate change, they proposed that Britons should consider having no more than two children per family.
In fact, there seems to be a link between cognition itself and lower birth-rates. At least in the US, women with low cognitive ability are more likely to have children before age 18 (Shearer et al. 2002). So, another possible human engineering solution is to use cognition enhancements to achieve lower birth rates. Like education, there are many other, more compelling reasons to improve cognition, but the fertility effect may be desirable as a means of tackling climate change. Even if the direct cognitive effect on fertility is minor, cognition enhancements may help increase the ability of people to educate themselves (Sandberg and Bostrom 2006), which would then affect fertility, and indirectly climate change. We shall shortly consider the effectiveness of such an indirect strategy for tackling climate change.
While altruism and empathy have large cultural components, there is evidence that they also have biological underpinnings. This suggests that modifying them by human engineering could be promising. Indeed, test subjects given the prosocial hormone oxytocin were more willing to share money with strangers (Paul J. Zak et al. 2007) and to behave in a more trustworthy way (P. J. Zak et al. 2005). Also, a noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor increased social engagement and cooperation with a reduction in self-focus during a mixed motive game (Tse and Bond 2002). Similar effects have been observed with SSRIs in humans and animal experiments (Knutson et al. 1998). Furthermore, oxytocin appears to improve the capacity to read other people’s emotional state, which is a key capacity for empathy (Domes et al. 2007; Guastella et al. 2008). Conversely, testosterone appears to decrease aspects of empathy (Hermans et al. 2006) and in particular conscious recognition of facial threats (van Honk and Schutter 2007). Neuroimaging work has also revealed that one’s willingness to comply with social norms may be correlated with particular neural substrates (Spitzer et al. 2007). This raises the likelihood that interventions affecting the sensitivity in these neural systems could also increase the willingness to cooperate with social rules or goals.
Articles about so-called ethics are arguably one of the biggest problems that confront us today. There is ample evidence that these articles are likely to affect adversely many aspects of life for all people around the world, and that existing solutions such as regulating laws might be too risky and ordinary arguments based on pure reason might not be sufficient to change the minds of these so-called experts in Human ethics. In this paper, we consider a new kind of solution to crappy ethics papers, what we call preventive Violence, which involves hard slaps against the heads of ethics professors and shouting "WHY SO STUPID" so that they can mitigate and/or adapt to more reasonable forms of human ethics. We argue that preventive violence is potentially less risky than regulating laws and that it could help arguments based on reason succeed in mitigating crappy articles about ethics. We also consider some possible ethical concerns regarding violence such as its safety, the benefits of violence against ethics professors for our children and for the society, and we argue that these concerns can be addressed. Our upshot is that preventive violence deserves further consideration in the debate about crappy ethics papers.
Addentum: This discussion is of course, as the preceeding discussions about after birth abortion purely academical. The authors would never, never ever explicitly say that certain ethics "professionals" have to get beaten. But, on the other hand, people are upset about the ideas stated in the presented article, they lack the ability to discuss about ethical matters on a reasonable basis. So, for short, as in the case of Guibilini et al people who are upset by our hypotheses are themselves just violent, mean people who are fundamentalistic.
Liebe Mitstreiter und Beter in der Blogozese!
Zum Geburtstag des Heiligen Vaters wollten wir eine Art elektronische Bilderbuchpostkarte für den Heiligen Vater zu seinem Geburtstag erstellen.
Dazu hatten wir vor einiger Zeit angefragt und um Mitgratulanten geworben.
http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.com/2012/02/es-sind-noch-genau-zwei-monate.html
Idee war, aus den Seiten aller Blogs der Blogozese ein Video zu basteln. Dazu müsste auf jeder Seite ein Geburtstagsgruß eingebracht werden, und dann ein Screenshot angefertigt werden und dieser dann an unsere Blog-Adressegoldmaria01@googlemail.com gesendet werden.
Cinderella hat einen ersten Prototyp erstellt, den man sich hier anguggen kann.
http://beiboot-petri.blogspot.com/p/videos.html
Hierzu haben wir willkürlich aus der kath. Bloggerliste 30 Seiten herausgegriffen und die integriert. Jemand der sich dort noch nicht findet, soll also nicht böse sein... das war keine Absicht.
Das ist jetzt nur eine Rohfassung in nicht so guter Qualität, aber wir denken als Ansichtsexemplar genügt es.
Unterlegt wird das ganze dann mit Musik. Wir würden vorschlagen: "Tu es Petrus" Dazu gibt es eine schöne Version von den Regensburger Domspatzen, die wir mir im iTunes-Store runtergeladen habe. Wegen GEMA wollen wir das aber nicht auf den Blog stellen.
Andere Vorschläge sind natürlich willkommen, das könnt ihr uns dann ja in den Kommentarbereich schreiben. Aber bitte dran denken, es soll dem Papst gefallen - nicht nur uns.
Es wäre schön, wenn sich viele beteiligen würden damit es ein schönes "dickes" Buch wird.
Bitte deshalb diese mail großzügig an alle Teilnehmer der Blogozese weiterleiten ... wir kennen ja nicht alle und da ist es gut, wenn es breit gestreut wird.
Wer ein Video mit Musik haben will, bitte über die e-mail-Adresse anmelden. Wir schicken es dann via eMail wg. GEMA

Ich frage mich manchmal, ob Kindergärten auch vom örtlichen Handwerker verlangen, kostenlos zu arbeiten.

par·a·drop
n.
Delivery of supplies to a place by parachute.
tr.v. par·a·dropped, par·a·drop·ping, par·a·drops
To deliver by parachute.
paradrop
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the delivery of personnel or equipment from an aircraft by parachute


Thus democracy became demoncracy
Sprechen wir doch mal eine ehrliche Sprache. Es geht doch, wenn man von "Ausgrenzung" spricht, hier um das "geschwisterliche" Mahl, was wir jeden Sonntag gemeinsam halten. Dieses Mahl, wo, ich weiß nicht aus welchem Grund, ihm ein derart gemeinschaftlicher Akt angedichtet wird, so daß es ausgrenzend sei, Wiederverheiratete oder Homosexuelle davon auszuschließen. Ist es denn wirklich so?
Es gab Zeiten, da wurde vor dem Empfang der Kommunion folgendes gesagt: "Wer HEILIG ist, der trete hinzu, wer es nicht ist, tue Buße". Die Heilige Eucharistie ist etwas, was man nur im Stand der Gnade empfangen darf. Und ja, viele wissen das gar nicht mehr, was ein Jammer und letztlich die Wurzel des Übels ist. Natürlich, wenn jeder, der fremdgeht, der flucht, der im Suff nicht mit dem Respekt, den es fordert, vom Allmächtigen spricht, kurz: wenn jeder SÜNDER (jawoll!) ohne vorher es zu bereuen und zu beichten nach vorne läuft, dann fragt man sich, ob das nur noch ein gemeinschaftsmahl ist und dann könnten doch auch andere Sünder hervortreten.
Aber das ist nicht Lehre der Kirche und nicht sinn der Eucharistie! Die Eucharistie ist KEIN gemeinschaftliches Ereignis in erster Hinsicht, und, hart ausgedrückt, schon gar nicht mit Sündern.
Was ist also zu tun? Ich denke, eine eigene strengere Gewissenserforschung, und daß man im Zweifelsfall halt auch in der Bank sitzen bleibt, würde schon was bewirken. Es ist absolut keine Schande, sondern meiner Meinung nach sogar etwas, wovor ich tiefen Respekt habe, wenn Leute andächtig nicht die Hl Kommunion empfangen. Demut kann auch eine Brücke sein, indem man sich mit dem Wiederverheirateten Geschiedenen und dem Homosexuellen bewußt wird, daß man auch selbst grad mit Gott nicht ganz im Reinen ist und vllt mal einfach hinten sitzen bleibt.
Allons armées catholiques
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la république
L'étendard sanglant est levé
Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that do not have anything to do with the fetus' health. By showing that (1) both fetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.
This does not mean that the interests of actual people always over-ride any right of future generations, as we should certainly consider the well-being of people who will inhabit the planet in the future. Our focus is on the right to become a particular person, and not on the right to have a good life once someone will have started to be a person. In other words, we are talking about particular individuals who might or might not become particular persons depending on our choice, and not about those who will certainly exist in the future but whose identity does not depend on what we choose now.
We might still have moral duties towards future generations in spite of these future people not existing yet. But because we take it for granted that such people will exist (whoever they will be), we must treat them as actual persons of the future. This argument, however, does not apply to this particular newborn or infant, because we are not justified in taking it for granted that she will exist as a person in the future. Whether she will exist is exactly what our choice is about.

An einem nasskalten Januar morgen stellte sich ein Straßenmusiker in eine U-Bahn-Station in Washington DC. Er spielte innerhalb von ca. 45 Minuten sechs Stücke von Bach. Während dieser Zeit herrschte starker morgendlicher Berufsverkehr in der U-Bahn-Station – errechnet wurde, dass mindestens 1.100 Menschen in dieser Zeit am Musiker vorbeigingen. Die meisten von Ihnen auf den Weg zur Arbeit.
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Niemand applaudiert ihm. Niemand gab ihm auch nur einen Hauch Anerkennung.
Niemand wusste allerdings, dass es sich bei dem Musiker um den Star-Geiger Joshua Bell gehandelt hatte. Joshua Bell ist einer der talentiertesten Musiker der Welt. Gerade hatte er in der U-Bahn-Station mit Bachs Kompositionen eines der schwierigsten Stücke, das je geschrieben wurde gespielt – das alles auf einer Geige im Wert von 3,5 Millionen Dollar.
Die Ironie, noch zwei Tage zuvor hatte Joshua Bell ein Konzert in Boston gegeben – Eintrittspreis durchschnittlich 100 Dollar.
Diese Geschichte ist wahr: Joshua Bell spielte tatsächlich inkognito in der U-Bahn Station. Geplant wurde diese Aktion von der Washington Post und war Teil eines sozialen Experiments über Wahrnehmung, Empfinden, Geschmack – Maßgeblich ging es um das soziale Einordnen der Prioritäten. Wie nehmen Menschen Dinge wahr, für die sie „ jetzt erstmal keine Zeit“ haben. Bedingungen für das Experiment waren u.a. ein öffentlicher stark frequentierter Ort, zu einer hektischen Phase (Rush hour). Können Menschen Schönheit wahrnehmen? Hören sie die hohe Qualität raus. Erkennen sie das Talent in diesem unerwarteten Zusammenhang?


many people smarter than I am have pointed out they are wildly inconsistent. For example, Catholic hospitals do not require proof that your marriage is recognized by the Catholic church to cover your spouse under the employer-provided benefits plans that they offer, even though the Catholic church does not recognize civil marriage or divorce.
The church teaches that many things are a sin–for example watching porn–yet they don’t have any way to prohibit employees from watching porn in their homes, or using money from their salaries to pay for other things the church considers a sin.
