The Implications of Status Quo Bias in Bioethics

The effect is generalizable across a wide range of activities and situations. But one has to be careful to distinguish the cases where it's a genuine bias in the sense of an irrational or inappropriate response. In bioethics, at least in so far as we're interested in making a consequentialist judgment, we face a very difficult challenge. We first face the difficulty of predicting what the actual consequences would be.