Catholic Pro-Life teaching includes artificial intelligence risks
Monsignor Dominique Rey, the former bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, is well known in France for his commitment to the sanctity of human life. Le Réseau Vie is the French Catholic Pro-Life association.
In the news, we typically see the pro-life debate characterised by the highly emotional conflict about abortion.
In fact, the Catholic attitude to abortion is part of a bigger picture that provides a coherent rebuttal of everything from euthanasia to the death penalty and war.
Moreover, it is a way of thinking that has evolved over almost two thousand years of Christianity. Mgr Rey's recent seminar in Lyon, like his books, was not limited to the theme of abortion.
I posed a question about the risks of artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions and Mgr Rey was immediately willing to answer that at length.
Regardless of how people feel about feminism and abortion, I feel it is important to respect the role the Catholic Church plays keeping us from going down a slippery slope.
The reality is, the science that we have today is not adequate to tell us when life really begins. Moreover, we don't even have a perfect scientific definition of what life really means. If there is a credible possibility that life begins at conception, we shouldn't risk making a mistake about that.
The Catholic Church does not ask us to believe in the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus. They do ask us to believe in the possibility that life begins at conception. Even for those who don't believe that, it seems like a reasonable thing to double check. When an aircraft is about to depart, the crew have to count how many lives are aboard the plane and they have to count more than once to be sure.
Whether we identify as pro-life or pro-choice, we need to consider the possibility that one side or the other is tricking us, just as in any other social engineering attack scenario. Is the church tricking us to believe life begins earlier than it really does? Or is the pro-choice lobby tricking women to believe their bun in the oven is not alive, using a false promise of female empowerment?
The vast empires of social media barons are built and controlled almost entirely by men. Their number one tactic for tricking women to submit all their data and communications to male surveillance is by giving women a false sense of empowerment. The pro-choice lobby endears themselves to women with the same narratives.
In the end, there are women who regretted having an abortion and there are women who came to regret giving all their data to social control media.
In my JuristGate reports, I look at how customers were tricked by our own lawyers. It is not hard to imagine that some people take their own life after being tricked like that.
In the most compelling case of trickery, I've examined how Adrian von Bidder-Senn died, age 32, on the same day as our wedding. It was Palm Sunday. By going over all the Debianism-related deaths, we find the whole Debian suicide cluster. Based on the things written by Frans Pop, I can't ignore the feeling that he felt tricked when he died. When we traced the Debian suicide cluster right back to its origins, we find the first death Joel "Espy" Klecker occurred in the US State of Oregon immediately after the high-profile legalisation of euthanasia. Moreover, the writings of Klecker show us that he was also tricked by the promise of a philosophy that our peers used to deceive us.
Australian Doctor John Billings is well known for creating the Billings Ovulation Method. The method allows women to understand when they are fertile and when they are not fertile from one day to the next. Therefore, the same method can be used either for the goal of becoming pregnant or for a contraceptive purpose. In that sense, it is the only contraceptive technique that has ever been approved by the Catholic Church. Coincidentally, Dr Billings, my father and I were all at the same Catholic school, Xavier College, Melbourne at different times.
Photos of seminar with Monsignor Rey, Réseau Vie, Basilique Saint-Bonaventure, Lyon
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