| 书目名称 | Harming Future Persons |
| 副标题 | Ethics, Genetics and |
| 编辑 | Melinda A. Roberts,David T. Wasserman |
| 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/425/424252/424252.mp4 |
| 概述 | Examines what we owe future persons from both moral and legal perspectives.Deeply probes particular concerns in areas ranging from the new reproductive technologies to the structure of morality.Ranges |
| 丛书名称 | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman 1 Purpose of this Collection What are our obligations with respect to persons who have not yet, and may not ever, come into existence? Few of us believe that we can wrong those whom we leave out of existence altogether—that is, merely possible persons. We may think as well that the directive to be “fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” 1 does not hold up to close scrutiny. How can it be wrong to decline to bring ever more people into existence? At the same time, we think we are clearly ob- gated to treat future persons—persons who don’t yet but will exist—in accordance with certain stringent standards. Bringing a person into an existence that is truly awful—not worth having—can be wrong, and so can bringing a person into an existence that is worth having when we had the alternative of bringing that same person into an existence that is substantially better. We may think as well that our obligations with respect to future persons are triggered well before the point at which those persons commence their existence. We think it would be wrong, for example, to choose today to turn the Earth of the future into a miserable place even if |
| 出版日期 | Book 2009 |
| 关键词 | Children‘s rights; Consequentialism; Ethics; Future Generations; Harm; Ligation; Reproductive; bioethics; ge |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-2604-8 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-5697-0Series ISSN 1567-8008 Series E-ISSN 2351-955X |
| issn_series | 1567-8008 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |
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