DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Preference Utilitarianism, Genetic Disorder, Lady Justice
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Birth as something natural with which humans have interfered. Statistically, there should be more women than men, but due to differences in medical care and sustenance, or even infanticide in some countries, there are over 100 million missing women" worldwide issue of injustice for women. Argument is that we are playing god in situations like this, but it isn"t the act of interfering with nature that upsets us, but whether the worry it generates is well-founded. New technologies of control (e. g. knowledge of genomes) have historical baggage". Unravelling the genetic code raises the issue of eugenic movements again, where people might be inclined to think that our genetic code determines our design if they take a simplistic stance and overlook the environmental influence. Abortion as a major issue of public debate. Debate often conducted as if it were a black or white issue (either pro-life or pro-choice), but it oftentimes isn"t (different people in different circumstances)
