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One of the ways to make judgments about the ethical impacts of technology is to employ prevailing norms of acceptability in determining what is fair and to avoid harm.Provide a critique of using this criterion.
Using prevailing norms of acceptability to make ethical judgments about technological advances is problematic,for the simple reason that prevailing norms may not be applicable to new technologies.We currently see this in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.The key question in this debate is what constitutes human life;alternatively,when does life begin? Our prevailing norms of acceptability leave this question unanswered.We can't even use current standards to adequately answer the question of abortion,much less the less known implications of stem cell research.