Provide a Short Answer to Each of These Questions

question 52

Essay

Provide a short answer to each of these questions.Be sure to fully explain your answer.
One of the ways to make judgments about the ethical impacts of technology is to employ prevailing norms of acceptability in determining what is fair and to avoid harm.Provide a critique of using this criterion.
Using prevailing norms of acceptability to make ethical judgments about technological advances is problematic,for the simple reason that prevailing norms may not be applicable to new technologies.We currently see this in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.The key question in this debate is what constitutes human life;alternatively,when does life begin? Our prevailing norms of acceptability leave this question unanswered.We can't even use current standards to adequately answer the question of abortion,much less the less known implications of stem cell research.

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Definitions:

Unethical Leader

A leader who acts in self-interest, violating moral principles, and often causing harm to the organization, employees, or society at large.

False Analogy

A logical fallacy that occurs when someone argues that two things are substantially alike in an important respect when they are not.

Argumentum Ad Populum

A fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or most people believe it.

Popular Belief

An opinion or conviction that is widely held by the general population, regardless of whether it is based on fact or fiction.