title: Persons of lesser values--moral argument and the "final solution".
abstract: For many persons, 'Holocaust-abomination' is a fixed point on their moral compass: if anything can be evil, it was. Yet at least one of the justifications deployed by its perpetrators (the eugenics argument) involves widely-held values concerning human health and procreation. Hence persons endorsing many current activities based on those values (e.g. genetic counselling) have been charged with being on a morally deplorable slippery slope. This paper sketches the necessary structure of a moral position capable of consistently embracing those values without placing its occupants on that slippery slope.
authors.affiliation: Department of Government, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Steiner
mesh_terms: D026689:Ethical Analysis; D005053:Eugenics / Q000266:history*; D005817:Genetic Counseling; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D017767:Holocaust / Q000266:history*; D006708:Homicide / Q000266:history*; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007585:Jews; D028683:National Socialism / Q000266:history*; D012928:Social Desirability; D012945:Social Values; D035761:Wedge Argument