debate topic
2007-10-30 03:13:43 · 3 answers · asked by rose 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Artificial creation of human life is a tool or method. These are NEVER ethical or unethical... they are just things. Is a hammer ethical? Is tap-dancing ethical? The question just doesn't connect.
On the other hand, what you DO with it very well could be ethical or unethical. Producing ten billion more people without regard to whether they have enough food to eat would be pretty hard to defend ethically. Giving caring but sterile parents the same chance to pass on their genes that everyone else has is pretty hard to decry ethically. And so it goes with any number of other permutations.
2007-10-30 10:47:12 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
toogethr has a good point. Does implanting (fertilizing) an ovum from a human female with a sperm from a human male ('in vitro' fertilization) and transplanting it to the uterus of the female (or, perhaps, even a -different- human female) constitute 'artificial creation'? Or would growing the zygote in vitro to maturity be artificial creation? How about selection of sperm and ovum based on DNA analysis? All you've really done is 'selected' a pair of haploids which -might- have joined anyway. Or does artificial creation involve things such as gene splicing to 'create' desired or modified or improved characteristics? It's a damned good question. If you haven't already done so, get a copy of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick. (Yes, it's the novel on which the movie 'Bladerunner' was based ☺)
Doug
2007-10-30 04:02:06 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're going to have to get into a discussion of the definitions of 'ethical' and 'artificial'.
2007-10-30 03:20:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋