Ethics
...reen for schizophrenia etc if it is possible. Women should be able to get intelligent and healthy children, even though they come from sperm bank and not from their husbands. My responses were primarily heteronomous, my opinions come from externally imposed laws and rules. My parents and other authority figures during my development have opposite opinions from mine, they all think that humans don’t have the right to play God, that children are sacred and they should only be proof of husband and woman’s love. I am not sure when and where, but during my puberty I lost that opinion and lots of other ones that came as the results of principled autonomy. Peter Singer and Raimond Gaita don’t think that sperm bank that specialise in supplying women with sperm from highly intelligent men is ethical. My responses and the reasons from them parallel only to Karen Green’s responses/reasons. She said: “ I guess every woman has right to try get a husband who is as intelligent and good-looking as possible. We do want the best possible fathers for our children. And, as we allow artificial insemination, I don’t see there is anything worse in women seeking to be inseminated with sperm from intelligent men”. Even though from my response you would think that I am utilitarian, that I justify an action as right if it maximise benefits over costs, I see myself more as an deontologist. I believe that there are more important considerations than outcomes, the intention of the act is more important than the result of an act ( Learning Guide, page 216). Furthermore, deontological theories are based on basic ethical rules that determine what is ethical thing to do ( duty, obligation ) and what is the ethically wr...