Moral Theories Of Deontology

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The post is about the robotic surgery and ethical dilemma related to the robotic surgery.
There are lot of risks related to the robots and the robotic surgery. Humans make the robots
and there can be errors during the development of the robots. The robots are not humans and
they can make mistakes during a surgery. The robots cannot be accurate when they are
performing the surgery (Fuertes-Guiró & Velasco, 2018). There are ethics related to the
robotic surgeries. The ethics can be explained by the theory of ethics known as the
Utilitarianism, deontology, character-based ethics and social contract theory.
Utilitarianism is a moral theory that supports actions promoting happiness and rejects the
activities that cause harm. A philosophy utilitarian, when directed in order to make social,
economic or political decisions aims for the good of the society. The three principles of
utilitarianism states that pleasure and happiness is one and only thing having a value that is
intrinsic, actions are correct so far they encourage happiness, wrong so far they produce harm
and happiness of everyone counts equally (Mill, 2016). When the utilitarianism theory is
applied to the robotic surgery it can be said that sometimes the actions of robotic surgery as it
promotes happiness sometimes but sometimes the actions become wrong that is the surgery
may go wrong and the person may die and that leads to harm or unhappiness. The utilitarian
philosophy states that it aims for the good of the society. Therefore, it can be said that robotic
surgery is prone to risks and it is not for the betterment of the society. Therefore, it cannot
replace the doctors and robotic surgery must not be used. The IT professionals are largely
responsible for the surgery accuracy of the robots because they develop the codes for the
working of the robots, these are sometimes not accurate, and it can lead to severe accidents
(Piacquadio, 2017).