Hastings Cent Rep. 2020 May;50(3):7-8. doi: 10.1002/hast.1119.
Seeking useful ways to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, bioethicists have been tempted to claim for themselves what Alasdair MacIntyre characterized in After Virtue as the moral fiction of managerial expertise. They have been eager to offer a wide range of policy prescriptions, presenting themselves as bureaucratic managers and suggesting an expertise that bioethics may not in fact be able to offer. This was evident, for example, in the petition published by The Hastings Center in March 2020. The pandemic could foster a more hopeful future for bioethics if it were to focus attention less on policy decisions that belong to all citizens and more on some of the most basic moral questions that life presents and with which bioethics has always dealt-including, surely, the virtues needed in order to live well in a time of pandemic.
为了寻找应对新冠疫情的有效方法，生命伦理学家们试图将阿拉斯代尔·麦金泰尔（Alasdair MacIntyre）在《德性之后》（After Virtue）一书中描述的管理专长的道德虚构据为己有。他们热衷于提供广泛的政策建议，将自己描绘成官僚管理者，并暗示生命伦理学可能实际上无法提供专业知识。例如，这在 2020 年 3 月 Hastings 中心发布的请愿书中显而易见。如果生命伦理学不再关注属于全体公民的政策决策，而是更多地关注生命提出的一些最基本的道德问题，以及生命伦理学一直在处理的问题——包括当然，在大流行时期过上美好生活所需的美德，那么这场大流行可能会为生命伦理学带来更有希望的未来。
