Question

A mother who has a second child in order to gain a bone marrow transplant for a sick firstborn child is breaking what categorical imperative according to a Kantian viewpoint?

Explain the benefit of the principle of equal consideration of interest as it applies to utilitarianism.

Individuals who subscribe to the values of relativism often seem very tolerant in their views, because they refuse to accept any universal rules of right or wrong without consideration of cultural context. For example, it is wrong to place the elderly out on an ice floe to die of cold, unless you are an Eskimo. Defend or refute the concept of relativism as it relates to health care provider decision-making in practice.

Answer 1

Kant believed that if by any means the disease is controlled by humans, then the rest who are already diseased will feel alienated. Constantly doing so, will also lead to designed children. So the mother is breaking kantian ethic regarding PGD is preimplantation genetic diagnosis.Though it is not directly, but in an other way.

According to the principle of equal consideration of interest, a person should consider all the affected interests and measure each of them equally when considering the rightness of an action. It is beneficial in a way that no point is left out and everything is given equal importance while taking an action.

Answering the last part on the basis of own knowledge, as a health care provider, we have to face and take many sudden actions. So in that case, it is very essential to be tolerant in a decision and obviously make the right decision. Life and death depends upon it. In that case, we have to go with the universal decisions and rules and just can't refuse anything and make our own plans and set of actions.