situation really in the "bioethic community". Perusic_antil2 Dear commenters, please don't waste your time. These "most eminent philosophers and bioethicists in the world" (Savulescu, Singer, Harris etc.)  are just a bunch of megalomaniac small minds who make a living out of mindless provocation. Don't feed the academic trolls! Dr. Timothy J. Williams The authors of the article don't just "talk" about infanticide. They JUSTIFY it. That is what is obscene in their reasoning and in the publishing of the article. If I mention that the modern Chinese practice infanticide, I am not in any way approving of it. But if I state that, in my view, the Chinese have every right to kill their female children if they feel inconvenienced by them, then I am approving of infanticide. That would most definitely be a contribution to the madness and horror. Surely, you can't be too dense to understand this? A minor pedantic point -- if they have justified infanticide, then the response here would be otiose. If something has been justified, then we have to accept its permissibility. The most that can be said is that they've attempted to justify, or mounted a justification of it. This aside, it's hard to see what's achieved by the repeated description of what's going on in the paper. That doesn't engage with it. OK -- but the fact that something is believed (by bioethicists, Germans, or anyone at all) isn't evidence that it ought to be believed. Giubilini and Minerva's ideas may be