Sentences with phrase «other ethicists»
Other ethicists worry that fears of eugenics will be raised if testing can be done for less - serious conditions.
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Still others, like the Aristotelian virtue ethicists Alasdair MacIntyre and Stanley Hauerwas, worry that human beings who do unpleasant deeds are more likely to do them again.
However, the recent letter on pastoral care of homosexuals (already referred to), as well as the demand by the Vatican that ethicist Charles Curran retract his position on homosexuality and other sexual moral issues, or relinquish his position as a Catholic theologian, and its more recent order to me that I give up all ministry to homosexual persons, have convinced me that I can no longer in conscience remain silent.
They reason that they need them because everyone else has them or because in an accident the other car will suffer more (a position that would probably not pass the test with many Christian ethicists).
But on the other hand, as a matter of course, Socrates is not an essentially religious ethicist, still less a dogmatic one, as the Christian ethicist is.
Conferences bringing representatives of religious communions together with other concerned groups — foundations, think tanks, social scientists, ethicists — dot the landscapes of developed nations and occasionally others as well.
I was confronted by a prominent ethicist the other day who wasted no time in asking, «Is the Old Testament Christian scripture or not?»
I reported here a few weeks ago that the NYT's Dear Abby - type column, «The Ethicist,» was holding an essay contest to descsribe why eating meat is ethical — judged by Peter Singer — who I noted elsewhere, has no business judging anyone's ethics — and other anti meat activists!
Possibly no other social ethicist was as committed to realism as Reinhold Niebuhr.
The NIH Human Embryo Research Panel's chief ethicist, Professor Ronald Green, proposed that the intelligent and articulate members of a society should vote on whether other members of the species deserve the status of «personhood.»
But Leemon McHenry, a medical ethicist at California State University in Northridge who has investigated the use of ghostwriters on articles about other drugs, thinks that the practice stretches beyond these high - profile cases.
But as the project has evolved, members have emphasized that the part of GP - write focused on the human genome will move at a slower pace than the other genomes being constructed, and the effort will involve ethicists every step of the way.
As for the possible use of cloning to produce copies of humans, most ethicists» initial reaction is that such an action would be unconscionable — although in the U.S., unlike in the U.K. and many other nations, it is not explicitly illegal.
If prenatal stem cell therapy proves successful and safe, ethicists and other physicians agree, it could be life - changing.
And it's slowly dawning on many scientists and ethicists that even if the DNA was offered to study diabetes or heart disease or some other specific condition, it may surrender many other secrets.
Stem cell technology has advanced so much that scientists can grow miniature versions of human brains — called organoids, or mini-brains if you want to be cute about it — in the lab, but medical ethicists are concerned about recent developments in this field involving the growth of these tiny brains in other animals.
The FDA's announcement several months ago that it would hold a public hearing on the subject elicited an outcry from scientists, ethicists and religious groups, who say the technology raises grave safety concerns and could open the door to creating «designer» babies, whose eye color, intelligence and other characteristics are selected by parents.
Ethicists have renewed the call for caution in handling gene - editing CRISPR, which has the potential not only to cure congenital and other serious illnesses but also can make permanent changes in human genome that can be heritable by a person's offspring.
When students engage in protests, civil disobedience, or any other form of activism, it's important for school leaders to listen to their concerns and to support their right to protest, says educational ethicist Meira Levinson.
Many people held a piece of this story, and I conducted more than five hundred interviews with hundreds of them: doctors, nurses, staff members, hospital executives, patients, family members, government officials, ethicists, attorneys, researchers, and others.
But other writers, campaigners and scholars, including Kieran Suckling of the Center for Biological Diversity and the Australian ethicist and author Clive Hamilton, flatly disagree.
It will be left to others — ethicists, clergy, ENGOs, (teachers?)
That paper is by Clive Hamilton, an Australian environmental ethicist who chastised me and others for proposing that a «good» path could be found in this era of human - dominated Earth systems, and Jacques Grinevald, a historian focused on the interface of environment and technology and member of the Anthropocene Working Group.
In other words, of all folks, really, responsible ethicists and (practical) moral philosophers should be doing whatever it takes, at this point, to bring about ethically sound ACTION.
Leading scientific organizations should be paying close attention to you and the Rock Ethics Institute as well as to other leading ethicists, most of whom would urge the same sorts of things (if they thought about them anyhow).
People (the public, the media, and so forth) naturally wonder, if only 1 percent of all ethicists, spiritual leaders, moral philosophers, other philosophers, «wise women and men», and so forth are speaking out in ethical / moral terms, then those ethical / moral arguments must truly be «not all that important», or «highly controversial and not broadly accepted», or «only held by theoretical folks», or whatever.
Other countries will likely follow these energy and climate actions, says Cornwall Alliance ethicist Calvin Beisner, thereby «sparing their citizens from the crushing costs of pointless policies to mitigate global warming, by raising energy costs and prohibiting the most reliable, affordable forms of energy.»
This collaborative approach is a far cry from the warnings of Australian ethicist and geoengineering critic Clive Hamilton, who has argued China's history of weather manipulation, top - down political system and urgent environmental challenges make it a likely contender to use geoengineering technology on its own without sharing its know - how with other countries.
A major review [1] of the laws related to legal capacity, decision - making and guardianship in Ontario was just wrapped up by the Law Commission of Ontario («LCO») and, thankfully, it is abundantly clear that the final 467 page report is based on hearing from people on the ground — patients, families, health professionals, lawyers, ethicists, advocates, and many others.
The signatures to the statement were collected by Professor Noel Sharkey and other member of ICRAC, a not - for - profit organization comprised of scientists, ethicists, lawyers, roboticists, and other experts that formed to address the potential dangers involved with the development of armed military robots and autonomous weapons.
Social media companies — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Snapchat, YouTube and others — have been microtargeting users with millions of specific advertisements, images, videos and other elements that are aimed at driving engagement, argue the campaign's backers, led by CHT Executive Director Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google.