Bioethics In The Small Would Summary

The author began his article by defining both culture and morality. Culture is the lifestyle of group of people who have a combination several factors that contributed to shape their culture. These factors include common environment, similar thoughts, believes, and behaviors. As diverse as the ecological systems, human cultures and subcultures are distinct from each other and may flourish or demolish over time due to different reasons. On the other hand, morality is based on the human rationality, fundamental human needs, and the same biological nature despite of belonging to various cultures. Due to human limitations – shortage in experiencing variety of human situation, human egocentrism, and human fallibility - moral thoughts and action may differ from one individual to another even from the same culture.
In the second part of the article, the author wanted to clarify an important concept which is that there is no perfect culture. Each culture has its own strengths and weakness in different aspects of life. That does not mean that a certain culture is superior to other cultures since humans are morally equal. Human beings may consider viewing various human cultures as trying on different colored eyeglasses or lenses in order to perceive and understand these culture from their perspectives not one’s own
Despite of that, one can notice that all the examples in the article are either related to the author’s own culture or not even related to the scientific ethics. Before initiating to read this article, I imagined that the article would include examples, practices, and situations related to the scientific research ethics but it was discussing the matters of cultures and morality in general point of view. It would be more appropriate if he included examples from the scientific situations instead of giving example of war in the