Saturday, May 20, 2006

Some Thoughts as Bonds Bags the Babe [Jarrett Conner]

Below are a few links to some smart folks pondering various kinds of performance "enhancement" and the problems that come along with them.

These are from well before the Barry Bonds saga (or his 714th home run) in its current form, but still applicable:

Michael Sandel, "What's Wrong with Enhancement"
And the subsequent discussion by some smart folks on the Council for Bioethics:
Discussion of "What's Wrong with Enhancement"

And for a broad consideration of improvement technologies:
Leon Kass, Beyond Therapy

Again, these things were written before Bonds bagged the Babe, but it lends a lot of serious thought and philosophical credence to what many of us are thinking . . .

This stinks.