PHIL 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Trichomoniasis, Voluntary Euthanasia, Palliative Care
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One step closer to gattaca: sequencing the dna in the blood of a pregnant mother to reveal the full genetic code of the fetus, allows the parent to detect birth defects. Implications: rash decisions to terminate pregnancies, could this cause some form of eugenics, will society"s attitude toward abortion shift, ethical considerations. Is this mercy killing or like euthanasia by not allowing the child to suffer? stronger and healthier. Teleological vs. deontological theories of ethics: teleological (consequentialist) consequences of the act determines the morality, an action is good if it maximizes the benefits, no action is always wrong it depends on the consequences i. Ex. killing is wrong, lying is wrong: religion, specifically the 10 commandments, is a deontological system. If pe is true, that may dictate which moral theories are true and which are false. 9: morality can"t require you to perform actions that you"re physically unable to do i. ii.