BIOETHICS

ATHLETIC AND COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT

• Performance enhancement
• Distinction between therapy and enhancement

ETHICAL ISSUES

• Liberty vs. Negative Consequenses
• Naturalistic Arguement
• For : Rights
• Against : Unfairness

STEM CELL RESEARCH

• Value of embryo

ETHICAL ISSUES

• Individuality and potential personhood of embryo
• New creatures that is from cross species

CLONING

• Therapeutic clonning
• Reproductive clonning
• Moral status of embryo
• "Replacement"

ETHICAL ISSUES (AGAINST)

• Health problems
• "Playing God"
• Nature and natural
• Arrogant human assumptions
• No unique individuality
• No soul
• Clones won't be free to develop as they choose
• Won't be respected or valued
• Gut reaction

ETHICAL ISSUES (FOR)

• No difference with medical practices
• God gave us brain, honor God by using it
• Growing in different environments and circumstances
• God will give soul
• Comparison with others is also a problem for non-clones
• Moral reasoning shouldn't rely on intuition and emotion alone

GENETIC ENGINEERING & GENETIC SCREENING

• Eugenic (Improvement of genetic component)
• Usage of information
• Privacy concerns

ETHICAL ISSUES (THE VALUE OF PRIVACY)

• Thomas Scanlon "to be free from certain intrusions"
• Idea of shame
• Desire to control information
• Formation and continuation of relations
• Information which can be used against us

ETHICAL ISSUES (SCREENING & CONFLICTING INTERESTS)

• Consequentialist : Is mandatory screening produce more harm or good?
• Deontological : Right vs. duty
• Combination : Morally stronger or more important interest

GENETICALLY MODIFIED PLANTS AND ANIMALS

• Impacts on human and environment
• Food allergies

ETHICAL ISSUES

• Against : Interference with the fundamental design of nature/Animal dignity and rights/Gut reaction
• For : Similar transfers have occurred in nature (evolution)