In a recent piece for the New York Times, atheist utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer placidly explained the value of voluntary assisted suicide beyond the usual requisite medical conditions. His calmness is where we find significant cause for alarm.

Not because one man, along with his co-author and co-podcast-host, is himself unalarmed by it, but because his approach is descriptive of a progressively complacent society at large. When it comes to “decolonization” and the like, not so; but when it comes to technological advances, quite. Singer’s loose bioethics are no longer shocking or contested.