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Good knowledge, maybe good future too

Even very bad people are valuable in the literal sense that their brains contain irreplaceable knowledge from which innocent people might benefit.

I used to think that murderers' lives should be spared because they had the potential to reform and lead good lives after their jail sentence was over (which might benefit the lives of others, but let's not go there..)

Of course, in believing this I was assigning moral worth on the basis of possible futures rather than on present status. So in that respect my understanding was no better than that of the "pro-life" gene freaks!

by Tom Robinson on Sat, 08/02/2003 - 00:10

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