naa a22 4500 51077895X CHVBK 20180411083240.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11948-012-9353-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11948-012-9353-z Link Hans-Jürgen Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany aut Playing God and the Intrinsic Value of Life: Moral Problems for Synthetic Biology? [Elektronische Daten] [Hans-Jürgen Link] Most of the reports on synthetic biology include not only familiar topics like biosafety and biosecurity but also a chapter on ‘ethical concerns'; a variety of diffuse topics that are interrelated in some way or another. This article deals with these ‘ethical concerns'. In particular it addresses issues such as the intrinsic value of life and how to deal with ‘artificial life', and the fear that synthetic biologists are tampering with nature or playing God. Its aim is to analyse what exactly is the nature of the concerns and what rationale may lie behind them. The analysis concludes that the above-mentioned worries do not give genuine cause for serious concern. In the best possible way they are interpreted as slippery slope arguments, yet arguments of this type need to be handled with care. It is argued that although we are urged to be especially vigilant we do not have sufficiently cogent reasons to assume that synthetic biology will cause such fundamental hazards as to warrant restricting or refraining from research in this field. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Synthetic biology nationallicence Intrinsic value of life nationallicence Artificial life nationallicence Playing God nationallicence Slippery slope nationallicence Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/2(2013-06-01), 435-448 1353-3452 19:2<435 2013 19 11948 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9353-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9353-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Link Hans-Jürgen Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/2(2013-06-01), 435-448 1353-3452 19:2<435 2013 19 11948 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer