Which is the correct relationship between bioethics and human freedom, including the man’s free research for happiness?
Do you think that bioethics themes (abortion, euthanasia…) concern only personal consciousness or the entire society? Bioethics is a branch of ethics and therefore its limitations on human freedom are moral limitations—not to be confused with law, custom or social convention. Bioethics thus is not a new discipline but a new application of the very ancient discipline of ethics to that segment of human acts associated with the use of biotechnology in human affairs or more generally in the biosphere. To speak, therefore, as your question implies, of “bioethics” “putting obstacles to the free determination of human beings” is to misplace the source of those “obstacles.” The “obstacles,” so-called, derive from the fact that bioethics deals—as any system of ethics must—with right and wrong, good and evil in human conduct. Ethics without constraints on human freedom would not be ethics at all. It would simply be license, i.e. giving sanction to whatever it is our will to do. This is moral d
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