Paul Wrote:Does the 'Greater Good' have more value than the individual?
Only if you have defined it to.
Quote:I am personally disturbed by the idea. I do however, understand the benefits to mankind and the planet, if one could take compassion and empathy out of the equation... but who draws the lines in the sand? Who decides?
I can at times adhere to the idea (as i understand it). There are not necessarily benefits to anything... there need only be perceived benefits (wether they actually are or outweigh the negatives is questionable). Compassion and empathy are often the primary motivators for such a sacrifice as to be "for the greater good". As for who decides and/or draws the lines... that would be the individual.
Quote:Utilitarian Bioethics are becoming more and more influential in policymaking procedures and is being taught to most of the medical students in the world. Is this a good thing?
Yes, though I don't see how it should matter medically...
Frankly... 'the benefit of the majority' is a concept that few will understand to be the same thing
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
