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Автор: Udo Schüklenk
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      3.21 These guidelines are binding regulatory documents for researchers funded by these agencies, not merely expressions of good intentions or an ethics wish‐list of a kind.

      3.22 You might want to investigate in what roles bioethicists function in your national medical association, research funding agencies and the like.

      3.23 In the next section we will introduce some common patterns of argument that you will come across in bioethics and we will demonstrate where, and how they fall short. The kinds of common fallacious arguments that you can find in bioethics are arguments flagged prominently in any number of critical thinking or rhetoric textbooks. This section is not meant to replace these textbooks (e.g. Hunter 2009; Vaughn 2010). Its objective is to red‐flag arguments that you should be concerned about when you come across them in bioethics related articles, whether in academic journals or in the news media.

      3.25 Sometimes this amounts simply to giving a proposed intervention or policy a description, such as ‘that would count as eugenics’, the implication being that eugenics is something to which no right‐thinking person would subscribe (see the section on slippery slopes, below). Alternatively, someone might say ‘That would be unlawful’. But in ethics, what is unlawful is not the end of the story as we saw in Chapter 1. What the law should be is the important question.

      3.28 In this sense the ‘playing God’ argument may reduce to a type of consequentialist argument, advising us to be aware of dangerous consequences when taking decisions in conditions of uncertainty. There are well established strategies for assessment and management of risks in such circumstances, but the fact that in dealing with new developments there are many ‘unknown unknowns’ remains for some a matter of considerable concern.