Current ethical issues in your society?

Answer 1

Ethical issues current in many Western societies include:

• Whether a dying person can refuse further medical intervention that is intended to prolong life.
• Whether a dying person should be permitted to end his or her own life, especially where unbearable pain is also involved; also whether another person can legally assist in carrying out those wishes.
• The extent to which the voluntary termination of pregnancy should be allowed.
• New biotechnical and genetic procedures that may have the potential to infringe on moral or religious views of some people.
• Alleged political corruption.
• Fair distribution of wealth and the provision of adequate health services for the less well-off.
  
• Involvement in wars where there may be no sufficient moral imperative.
• Non-involvement in wars where there is a strong moral imperative.