From what I can understand “Gresham’s Law” can be boiled down to, one bad apple ruins the bunch. In bioethics, and ethics in general “‘Gresham’s Law for ethics’ affirms that ‘bad ethics drives good ethics out of circulation’” (Rollin 509). As an extreme example of “Gresham’s Law for ethics” would be Hitler. …show more content…
This is all a lot to take in, so as an aside let me explain what I mean when I say “bioethics.” When referring to bioethics, I’m referring to anything ethically related in the fields of biology, an example of which is genetic engineering (McCormick). One reason the morality of bioethics has risen could be the practical use of a new nuclease system called CRSPr-cas9. CRSPr makes changing the genome of an organism extremely easy and many are concerned about the “sacredness” of the genome (Kaebnick). That messing with the code we’re made of might taint nature. It’s a debate about “purity and foulness” (Kaebnick), an example of which would be