Dependency and Vulnerability Argument in Care Ethics and the Moral Justification of Human Genome Editing
Abstract
Care ethics is a normative ethics that holds, among other things, that moral notions centres on human interpersonal relationships and care as a virtue. It concerns itself mainly with caring relationships. The problem of Human Genome Editing (HGE) raises different moral issues and different attempts has been made from the consequentialist (utilitarian) and non-consequentialist (deontological) perspectives for their justification but not satisfactorily. This paper aims to argue that care ethics provides a better alternative moral justification for HGE. In doing this, the paper will use dependency and vulnerability argument in care ethics. If this is successfully argued, it will show that care ethics provides a better alternative means of moral justification of HGE in Bioethics.
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