Virtue Ethics

• What is the key virtue in modern contexts?

  compassion - focus on people whose well-being is destroyed by disease rather than cells
• Stem cell research and therapeutic cloning offer what?

  • The opportunity to increase human well-being
  • Develop the virtues of courage through the removal of some or all diseases that afflict humans
• Right to control unnecessary suffering
• Designer Babies could lead to what?

  • A society in which there are different/specific sets of virtues for different types of humans
  • Loses the teleological aspect as there will be no common set of virtues
• The failure to use medical techniques where it could prevent suffering makes us responsible for what?


  the suffering that follows