Steiner H
Department of Government, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
J Appl Philos. 1995;12(2):129-41. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-5930.1995.tb00128.x.
For many persons, 'Holocaust-abomination' is a fixed point on their moral compass: if anything can be evil, it was. Yet at least one of the justifications deployed by its perpetrators (the eugenics argument) involves widely-held values concerning human health and procreation. Hence persons endorsing many current activities based on those values (e.g. genetic counselling) have been charged with being on a morally deplorable slippery slope. This paper sketches the necessary structure of a moral position capable of consistently embracing those values without placing its occupants on that slippery slope.
对许多人来说，“大屠杀暴行”是他们道德指南针上的一个固定点：如果有什么是邪恶的，那就是它了。然而，其实施者所采用的至少一种正当理由（优生学论点）涉及到关于人类健康和生育的广泛持有的价值观。因此，那些基于这些价值观支持许多当前活动（如遗传咨询）的人被指责处于道德上应受谴责的滑坡之上。本文勾勒了一种道德立场的必要结构，这种道德立场能够始终如一地接受这些价值观，而不会让其支持者陷入那种滑坡。
