Practical Ethics Bites

Can you choose to be gay?

Brian Earp discusses the ethics of sexual orientation.

The ethics of sexuality

Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards argues that homosexuality is natural, and that what is natural can be neither good nor bad.

Should we allow genetic engineering on embryos?

Does a human embryo have moral status? Tom Douglas explores the ethical issues surrounding genetic research on developing embryos.

Is there such a thing as a just war?

Is an ethical war a paradoxical notion? If violence is almost always unacceptable, how can we justify acts of war? 23 10

The rights and wrongs of abortion

Rebecca Roache discusses the conflicting rights and interests of both foetus and mother.