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Cultural and Individual Risk Perception in Human Germ-Line Gene Therapy Research

New technologies find friends and foes, and have to work their way into the fabric of moral values and cultural attitudes. Nuclear energy, information technology, and gene technology are the most prominent technologies of our times with different cultural, national, and international approaches. They are the black powder, steam boilers, and locomotives of our times. Their moral and cultural control and acceptability requires moral assessment on the following six levels: individual, familial, religious, societal, national, and international. National and international guidelines must protect individual human and civil rights while at the same time avoiding forced transnational and transcultural uniformity. National and international instruments, therefore, must respect different religious and cultural attitudes towards the manipulation of life, concepts of disease and disorder, risks in human experimentation, and the identification of the appropriate agents to make moral choices based on available therapeutic technologies. I will briefly focus on the cultural diversities in assessing moral risk in germ-line research and on identifying the moral agent best qualified to make germ-line intervention decisions.