The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics by Marta Soniewicka

Author:Marta Soniewicka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

9.4 Theoretical Strategies of Resolving Dilemmas

As we have already remarked, dilemmas do not appear on the ground of theories but in practice, in a definite context of acting. Biomedical practice is the context of the above mentioned examples. Recognizing them as dilemmas is connected with the fact that the decision-maker who has norms accepted in the domain of a given theory cannot cope “here and now” with deciding which of the rival options should be given priority. Hence if dilemmas do appear in practice, recognizing them as such results from accepting definite assumptions that are proper for a given ethical (bioethical) theory (Chyrowicz 2008, 393–401). A debate about resolving dilemmas seems reasonable exactly within a theory, and not outside it, and this is because of a few reasons that I will try to explain below.1.Since interpreting a dilemma as a real (unsolvable) one is connected with an unconditional character of duties coming into conflict, this unconditionality should be in some way accounted for. This task – not an easy one! – rests with the defenders of deontological ethical theories, including the deontological approach to bioethics. Justification of the unconditional character of the moral duty to act outside the ethical theory seems to be an undertaking both risky and impossible to carry out.

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