Bioethics: Christmas to remember...

This morning I came across a rather provocative article on the subject of personhood, a mythical yet tangible category concerning the middling aspects of the human animal.

The information can be found below:

The American Journal of Bioethics, 7(1): W1–W4, 2007
Copyright c Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN: 1526-5161 print / 1536-0075 online
DOI: 10.1080/15265160601150352

One qoute stood out more than others concerning PVC, or persistent vegetative condition, and I recall it here in length:

By now we hope it is clear that we are not advocating a
naturalized conception of personhood. What we are doing is
addressing the relation between the moral concept of a person
and the natural world, and in that sense we are assuming
that the natural world is relevant to moral theory. Although
moral principles themselves may not require empirical validation,
they do refer to entities in the real world, and for bioethics in
particular the way in which we anchor such principles in empirical
reality is crucial. (AJB 4)

Ahh..the natural world IS relevant to moral theory huh? I could agree but our societies and communitas esoterica create mythologies by which we live, support, exist, tear down, replace, (re)edit, et cetera. Santa Clause is of this construction. Is Christ? Not necessarily seeing as how there is/was a historical analog labeled Yeshua, Jesus (or, James).

This year forget about the traditions, which are mythos--supported and (re)apply topically the love for the human animal, the person and quotidian event/phenomena of the neighbor. Let us be Levinasian in the sense that heaven can exist on earth amidst those seeking the other's good without reciprosity.

What a Christmas to remember, no. Be well.