Assignment:
Paper
Pick an issue that we covered this semester. You can pick an issue that you feel particularly strongly about, or one that you have been struggling with.
Your paragraphs should be organized as follows:
Paragraph 1: Explain the main ideas and conflicts involved in the issue.
Paragraph 2: Define and discuss the way that autonomy pertains to your issue.
Paragraph 3: Define and discuss the way that nonmaleficence pertains to your issue.
Paragraph 4: Define and discuss the way that beneficence pertains to your issue.
Paragraph 5: Explain how a consequentialist ethical theory (for example: utilitarianism) would address your issue.
Paragraph 6: Explain how a deontological ethical theory (for example: Kantian ethical theory) would address your issue.
Paragraph 7: Describe your views about this issue and explain how you would respond to this issue if you were faced with it.
Discussion:
1. Does a just society offer its citizens some minimal level of medical care? How would that minimal level be defined?
2. Is enhancement always cheating? What if no one else is affected? Does it make sense to say one can 'cheat oneself' when one is fully aware of hte consequences and freely chooses them?