Human Exceptionalism

Does it matter what happens to our bodies after we die? The Orthodox Christian faith says, "Yes!"

Is the "right to die" more important than religious liberty?

Should animals have the same rights of "personhood" as humans?

Why is our culture obsessed with death, and how can remembrance of death help us to overcome it?

What do euthanasia enthusiasts really want? To eliminate suffering of any kind by eliminating the sufferer.

Wesley demonstrates how the West is increasingly incapable of engaging in true debate, achieving broadly agreeable consensuses or finding middle-ground compromises about the most important controversies that vex us.

The once ludicrous notion that ecological protection and fighting climate change require according legally enforceable human-style rights to nature is becoming more mainstream within the environmental movement. Wesley J. Smith examines the consequences.

Even if we came about through purely materialistic and Darwinian means, it is self-evident that something happened to make us so remarkably distinct from every other known life form.

Wesley discusses "transhumanism"—what is quickly becoming the world's newest religion, offering adherents the kind of hope once within the exclusive province of faith and without the humbling concept of an omnipotent God to whom one owes prayer and thanksgiving.

Supporting another's self-destruction is not a compassionate or morally neutral act.

If you think it is respectable to consider babies, whether born or unborn, to be an inferior stage of human life, you can easily come to think that they have few rights that fully developed persons are bound to respect.

Yesterday's views of depredation have become today's banal norms.

Once a culture accepts the fundamental premise of euthanasia consciousness, there is no way to limit doctor-administered death to those who are already at the end of their lives.

Hippocratic pro-life medical professionals are increasingly being pressured to practice their science and art without regard to their personal faith or conscience beliefs.

Two items in the news lately have captured Wesley's attention.

The killing of Cecil the Lion is a bad thing. On a new "Human Exceptionalism," Wesley J. Smith explains why while differentiating between animal rights and animal welfare.

Wesley discusses the concept of human dignity.

Wesley introduces his podcast, as well as the concept of human exceptionalism.