Mr Chopra interprets everything though the lens of anxiety and as a result either magnifies its true significance or sees it where it is not. To invert and adapt an old proverb, to an anxious nail, everything looks like a hammer. (Review for the Wall Street Journal)
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Attaching a price to a human life is the height of poor taste. It obscures the distinction between two very different kinds of value – the monetary and the existential. However, there are situations in which one can, should or even must set aside any thought of the sanctity of human life and make cold, hard calculations.
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I contributed this chapter to the book Cultivated Meat to Secure Our Future: Hope for Animals, Food Security and the Environment, edited by Philip Lymbery and Michel Vandenbosch. Despite the book's title, my chapter is quite sceptical. To the credit of the editors, they still included it.
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While it’s heartening to be reminded that there are at least some issues on which all decent people agree, if we look more closely at the conditions that have allowed for this outbreak of ethical agreement, they could be as much a cause of concern as they are of reassurance.
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