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Quick science/ethics lesson on biological processes.
1) Some biological processes can be prevented by not taking part in an action:
- digestion: don't eat
- respiration: hold your breath
- reproduction: don't have sex
1) Some biological processes can be prevented by not taking part in an action:
- digestion: don't eat
- respiration: hold your breath
- reproduction: don't have sex
2) You cannot simply by force of will cause a biological process to start or stop
- you can't will your body to digest or not
- you can not will your body to respirate or not (you can willfully mess with tempo of respiration)
- you cannot will pregnancy to start or stop
- you can't will your body to digest or not
- you can not will your body to respirate or not (you can willfully mess with tempo of respiration)
- you cannot will pregnancy to start or stop
3) Disease/illness is an example of a biological process gone wrong:
- cancer
- diabetes
- copd
- NOT PREGNANCY
- cancer
- diabetes
- copd
- NOT PREGNANCY
4) You can alter biological processes using surgery/medicines. Whether or not it is an ethical use of time, energy, costs, materials, and risk depends on why.
- fix a biological process gone wrong
- stop a biological process that is going right
- fix a biological process gone wrong
- stop a biological process that is going right
