Biotechnology and monstrosity. Why we should pay attention to the "yuk factor".

hat kinds of moral objections are there to W such interventions as xenotransplantation, genetic engineering, and bio-engineering generally? Ethicists today often divide moral objections firmly into two sets, those that point to dangerous consequences and those saying that the act itself is intrinsically wrong. Of course this division between act and consequence is often useful. But unless the two angles are brought together again at some point it can split the subject disastrously. It is often very hard to consider probable consequences on their own because we really do not know what they are likely to be. On the other hand, trying to consider intrinsic objections on their own, apart