- many conditions exist along a spectrum
- can't just be about technology but about specific usage since many technologies
can be both therapy and enhacement
- some causes difficult to distinguish
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, problems with enhancement (President's Council)
- allows market based payments to people for their organs
- problems: body is not our property (it's God's), more attractive for poor to sell
organs (rich would profit), commodification of body
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organ market
- naturally given threatened by hubris (exaggerated pride)
- dignity of human activity threatened by means
- identity threatened by technologies
- flourishing threatened by shallow ends
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essential concerns over enhancement
- more and more patients are being maintained on ventilators without any hope of
recovery
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death has become more complicated
, - ability to feel pain
- fundamental unit of utilitarians
- problems: excluded categories of human (severe brain damage), many animals are
sentient
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sentience
- Islamic thinking
- though life and death are in God's hands
- humans should not try to master it
- death is return to God through promise of resurrection, don't fear death
- life = service to God, gift fostered through healthcare, shouldn't be destroyed
through suicide, suffering is a trial and expiation for sin, duty to care for life is not
unlimited
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Abdul Sachedina
- doesn't believe fetuses are persons
- bodily integrity - argues pregnant person's body can't be used against their will to
gestate a fetus conceived in an assault
- Violinist argument
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- can't just be about technology but about specific usage since many technologies
can be both therapy and enhacement
- some causes difficult to distinguish
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, problems with enhancement (President's Council)
- allows market based payments to people for their organs
- problems: body is not our property (it's God's), more attractive for poor to sell
organs (rich would profit), commodification of body
Give this one a try later!
organ market
- naturally given threatened by hubris (exaggerated pride)
- dignity of human activity threatened by means
- identity threatened by technologies
- flourishing threatened by shallow ends
Give this one a try later!
essential concerns over enhancement
- more and more patients are being maintained on ventilators without any hope of
recovery
Give this one a try later!
death has become more complicated
, - ability to feel pain
- fundamental unit of utilitarians
- problems: excluded categories of human (severe brain damage), many animals are
sentient
Give this one a try later!
sentience
- Islamic thinking
- though life and death are in God's hands
- humans should not try to master it
- death is return to God through promise of resurrection, don't fear death
- life = service to God, gift fostered through healthcare, shouldn't be destroyed
through suicide, suffering is a trial and expiation for sin, duty to care for life is not
unlimited
Give this one a try later!
Abdul Sachedina
- doesn't believe fetuses are persons
- bodily integrity - argues pregnant person's body can't be used against their will to
gestate a fetus conceived in an assault
- Violinist argument
Give this one a try later!
