The Bioethics Project
At Kent Place School
Tag: utilitarianism
Tag: utilitarianism
A Smarter World: How Far Will We Go?
A Smarter World: How Far Will We Go? By Sophia Sinins Our imperfections and struggles are commonly held to make life more meaningful; but why would we insist on passing down flaws that result in marked disadvantages to others, especially if the power to control them were just at our fingertips? The possibility of using
Read More
The Case for a Legalized Kidney Market
Absence Makes the Need Grow Stronger: The Case for a Legalized Kidney Market By Noelle Rosa Approximately 97,000 people in the United States alone are eagerly awaiting a life-saving kidney transplant. In 2012, almost 5,000 of the people on this list lost their lives due to the insufficient supply of donated organs. Kidney commodification, or
Read More
Consequences and Conscience
The Ethical Pitfalls of Using Consequentialism to Justify Unethical Experimentation By Serena Zheng This paper will ultimately focus on the ethical pitfalls of using various derivatives of consequentialism to justify unethical conduct in the form of experiments on institutionalized populations. The question of whether it is ethical to justify the suffering of a group of
Read More