Wesley J. Smith

Transhumanists and other futurists insist that the future will bring us robots who have become “conscious” beings, and that when they do, “sentient” machines should receive what we now call human rights.  This is all fanciful, of course. Robots of the kind envisioned . . . . Continue Reading »

Over the Christmas holiday lull, I saw one commenter support Obamacare on the purely utilitarian grounds that the government should do that which benefits the most people.  I almost spit out my eggnog.  Obamacare will actually harm most people to benefit the minority by reducing the level . . . . Continue Reading »

I am not posting this YouTube video because Lord Monckton pretty much takes apart a Green Peace member about global warming. (She admits it is a matter of faith for her because she believes those telling her the planet is warming catastrophically.) Like the very nice interviewee, most people . . . . Continue Reading »

A book for men with Wesley’s 60-year-old knees.Piraro joins the hysterics . . . . Continue Reading »

Palliative sedation, that is putting an imminently dying patient into an artificial coma and allowing the disease to take its course, is a legitimate palliative technique—when the symptoms warrant it.  Thus, in the rare case where pain can’t be controlled or a patient panics due to . . . . Continue Reading »

The NHS continues to teach us important lessons. Once government bureaucracy gets hold of health care, the sky will be the limit—for their expenses.  This is especially true when things go wrong, since the answer to problems with centralized systems is, well, more central . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written extensively about how the Swiss Constitution declared the legal intrinsic dignity of individual plants (and an ethics committee declared the “decapitation” of a wildflower to be immoral ). I have also written how Nicaragua’s new constitution created the “rights of . . . . Continue Reading »

I have written extensively about how the Swiss Constitution declared the legal intrinsic dignity of individual plants (and an ethics committee declared the “decapitation” of a wildflower to be immoral). I have also written how Nicaragua’s new constitution created the “rights . . . . Continue Reading »

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, lead global warming hysteric who wants the elites to impose economic decline in order to save the planet, faced the coldest Christmas in the UK in many years. . . . . Continue Reading »

Christmas is a season of expectation and the joyful fulfillment of our deepest yearning.  That is easy to forget as we strive with the tensions and complexities of modern life.  So, let us take a brief pause to embrace hope and experience the simple joys of giving, receiving, and . . . . Continue Reading »