Humans are more related to fungi than any other kingdom of life. What implications does this knowledge have for Bioethics?
In my current understanding the definition’s of bioethics are numerous and operate on a broad spectrum. Because I believe there is no such thing as objectivity in science, I think that bioethics, like all science is subjective, therefore it is evolving. Although I feel this way, my feelings are not based on ethics, but rather life experience. Bioethics will evolve and advance as Man evolves, and the sciences and technologies of man advance. So in my current understanding, bioethics is a subjective philosophic science.
What bioethics means to me are the value’s placed on life issues, or sciences, and the proper principles and practices associated with those issues. Ethics are at the foundation of what Man should and should not do. By values I am also referring to morals, beliefs, and feelings, although bioethics is not the same as morals, beliefs, or feelings, associated to life issues, or life sciences. Bioethics is relevant or related to all sciences, technologies, and biological issues on earth, or in the universe. This is because everything in the universe is related on a quantum scale.
In the contemporary sense of the word bioethics are the study of ethical issues in the biological sciences and medical related fields that may be controversial or considered to be a new technology that has yet to be regulated. Often new technologies advance through science faster than social, political, or economic regulations, policies, and long term research data can be applied.
I would like to see the conversation around bioethics advance beyond contemporary medical and technological issues, such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, or abortion procedures, and move into more conceptual fields such as biophillia, technophillia, biognosis, telegony, biogenesis, and immortality. In much more contemporary fields I would like to see bioethics reach the fields of resource development and use, community development, industrial/automated application and ecological manufacturing, and even consumerism as these things affect and have consequences to life for all living organisms, especially humans.
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