BioEthics Final - People

Huemer

Wrote on why recreational drug use should be legal because prohibitions violate basic personal liberties.

Levy

Thinks that public policies that expect people to take responsibility for their own health target vulnerable populations unfairly - and thus are unjustified.

Conly

Thinks that the dangers of overpopulation outweigh the benefits people receive from having more than one child.

Wicclair

Thinks that there is a reasonable place for conscientious objection in healthcare.

Moss & Siegler

Believes that although they have comparable results, patients with ARESLD should receive lower priority than others due to liver scarcity and fairness.

Minerva

Believes that physical unattractiveness, because it can cause emotional, social, and economic harm, deserves more ethical, political, and legal attention.

Barnes

Disability is a “mere difference” - not a bad one. Effort should be put into addressing the systems that allow social prejudice and inaccessibility rather than feeling the need to “fix bodies”.

Savulescu et. al

Pandemics demand utilitarian reasoning, i.e., choosing policies that produce the overall greatest good.

Eberl

Does not believe in therapeutic privilege, and thinks that intentionally withholding information from a patient threatens their autonomy.

Singer

Thinks that people who believe they have the right to use animals as they see fit, even without excessive cruelty, is indefensible. Instead, we should view them as moral patients with rights and interests.

May

Dismisses Singer’s ethical reasoning, and believes that there are many fundamental flaws to the way singer thinks ethics should be applied to real-world scenarios.

Bostrom

Addresses the two most common fears of transhumanism: dignity, and uprise. Thinks that transhumanism could enhance human experience, and would not necessarily lead to a degraded state or war.

Elliot

Beleives that psychological disorders stem from alienation, otherwise known as a mismatch between people and their cultural, social, or existential frameworks that give life meaning.