Kant: Genetic Engineering

Kant: Genetic Engineering

1. Based around absolute rules. Cant be universalised, if it was then it could be argued that you could have been used for genetic engineering rather than a life itself

   • contary to the will
     • e.g Abortion would go against your own existence
   • contrary to the concept
     • if stealing was universalised then there would be no concept of ownership or stealing

2. If your opinion that the embryo is a life then you are using life as a means to an end

   • This is against Kantian Ethics

3. Kant would also justify using animals to grow human organs as long as it caused no risk for humans

   • This would be using animals as a means to an end, however animals are lower beings and therefore are not as important

4. It therfore goes against the catagorical inperative

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