Further, if its identity would be different from the child that would have been brought into existence, would the genetic interference be immoral in virtue of preventing that other child's existence?
Even if it is effective at saving lives, it is inherently immoral by virtue of its costs to human dignity.
Teacher T44: agreed on all types - if the parents are willing to use ART and such use does not go against ethics and laws, the parents should be respected (Autonomy). 2 frameworks Teacher T3: disagreed on surrogacy - they benefit both the parents and the others (Utilitarian), while the surrogacy may be misused by an immoral person (Virtue-based ethics).
Our tendency to paint the characters of others in black and white allows us to justify our immoral actions by virtue of the fact that we self-deceptively (and self-righteously) cast ourselves and our motivations as wholly good in opposition to our opponent who is wholly evil, and so we can treat them however we see fit.
Thus, ultimately, ALL groups of people become immoral, simply by virtue of the inherent nature of groups.
We noted that the simple Legal Moralist's claim, the claim that we have good reason to criminalize any kind of immoral conduct simply in virtue of its immorality, seems implausible.
Steadfast adherence to an immoral worldview is no virtue.
He is also now propagating an exculpatory view of any and all U.S. war efforts -- as if the immoral can become the magnificent by virtue of patriotic alchemy.
In this debate the Lady and Comus signify, respectively, soul and body, ratio and libido, sublimation and sensualism, virtue and vice, moral rectitude and immoral depravity.
Thus if (and only if) we considered tolerance to be a moral virtue, the paradox arises that an immoral attitude (to think of other "races" in such way) would be turned into a virtue.
