I've been scratching my head, wondering why people are concerned about the ethics of face transplants. I've been doing a bit of reading, and for the life of me although I see articles that mention ethical problems, I can't pinpoint exactly what those problems are.

There are vague references to self image issues. If that made surgery unethical then there is a huge industry of cosmetic surgery that is in big trouble. There are vague issues of psychological stability. Again, I don't see the downside. Going from horribly disfigured to normal but different is a choice I wouldn't deny my worst enemy (not that I have enemies).

It seems to me that whenever something is new and a little creepy, people go a little nuts, make claims of ethical problems and come up with reasons for not liking that thing, when in fact they are using a sort of retroactive logic. They don't like something and then afterwards they come up with irrelevant reasons why they don't like it.

Now, I'm not claiming to be immune to this sort of thinking. When I dig a girl, I usually come up with reasons why I dig her, but in fact I just dig her because I dig her. The reasons are just something I notice after the fact. Some girls are just incredibly appealing. I wish I knew why I found some girls appealing and others not, but I'm just not that smart, not in that way.

Anyway, back on topic.

I haven't yet seen it, but I bet someone will use a slippery slope argument that we should prevent this, because if you allow this, next thing you know, older women will be hiring hit men to capture young attractive women to steal their faces.

Oh, the slippery slope, what would pundits do without that enticing fallacy?