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Examples Of Ethical Egoism In My Sister Keeper

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One of the issues we can find in the movie My Sister keeper is individual benefit which applies the theory of Ethical Egoism. The definition of Ethical Egoism is focusing on individual’s self-interest. Based on this belief that every individual should act in a way to promote him or herself if the net result will generate, on balance, positive rather than negative results. In the movie My Sister Keeper, Sara and her husband Brian, makes the choice of genetically engineering a child who will be an immediate match to their leukaemia-stricken daughter Kate. This is because, they required a genetic match to act as Kate’s donor in order to have Kate alive, and the specialist let them know that the most ideal approach to find such a match was basically

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