AMT408- REPORT: ALPHA GAL SYNDROME IS A COVERT OBLIGATORY MORAL BIOENHANCER | As a Man Thinketh

A new bioethics paper makes an extraordinary—and deeply disturbing—suggestion: that a dangerous tick-borne allergy could be considered a morally beneficial tool.
Parker Crutchfield, a bioethicist at Western Michigan University, argues that alpha-gal syndrome (AGS)—a meat allergy triggered by the lone star tick—might function as a “moral bioenhancer” because it forces people to stop eating meat.Let’s be clear: this is an argument for altering people’s biology without their consent, on the premise that it’s “for their own good.” That’s not public health—that’s moral authoritarianism wrapped in medical jargon.
Framing moral disagreement as a public-health problem turns dissent into a disease. Claiming covert programs “protect autonomy” is absurd; autonomy is the right to know and choose, not the privilege of being secretly manipulated.
And once we normalize the idea that an involuntary condition can be morally “beneficial,” we open the door to engineering those conditions—ticks, viruses, even foods—deliberately.The ethical line is bright: No covert moral bioenhancement. No biological coercion. No pretending that secrecy serves liberty.
The moment we let morality be manufactured without our knowledge, we’ve stopped cultivating virtue and started producing compliance. And that’s a path no free society should take.
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