 One final point for the moment on the disruption of the distinction between ethical theory and applied ethics: as will be discussed in more detail in  section 4,  many would say there recently has been widespread adoption of reflective equilibrium as the method of justification in bioethics (Arras 2007). One important implication of this adoption is a blurring of the distinction between moral theory and applied ethics, what with the fact that on reflective equilibrium, our responses to real cases inform our theorizing as much as our theories inform our handling of cases.