The student is wrestling on the kitchen table writing a piece about ethics morals and values in social work. As you might have noticed they have featured nearly but not quite as much as axes and chain saws in my recent life.
It was a bit stunning as today we get told the BMA has no ethical issues with this American who wants to pay substance users to be sterilized.
Now, leaving aside the overtones of eugenics in this. The medical profession will be paid to perform operations on people who at the time that they consented were in the midst of personal crisis, could be mentally ill and possibly inebriated.
It would be illegal to give them a tattoo but it would not be an ethical problem to chop out their reproductive bits.
Pick on them when they are at their very lowest, say to them; "have this procedure and we will fund your next week of drugs".
What the hell ever happened to informed consent. How informed is consent given whilst in the depths of everything and desperate for your next fix.
You would not condone this in selling double glazing never mind ending someone's right to have children
This is the ethics of the gutter, the last time something this odious was proposed the chap proposing it had a dapper line in shirts a really off hair do and a moustache.
The student is out there writing about morals and Ethics.
The BMA it seems to me, has no problem with doing the immoral and unethical to those on the margins of society so long as there is a yank with money.
Perhaps this is the big society in action
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Rhys
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