Future Global Ethical Issues (Excerpt from the State of the Future report)



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Is it ethical to conduct trade on, or based on, genetic codes?



















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Should mass media be evaluated on the basis of its political inclinations (or sympathizing with political persons)?



















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Should individuals have the right to keep information about their genetic constitution private and confidential, and away from the purview of commercial interests or insurance agencies?



















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Is it ethical for men to sell their sperm? Will women be able to buy sperm (classified according to potentialities and/or characteristics of the ""salesman"")?






















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Should there be two standards for athletic, musical, and other forms of competition: one for the un-augmented and another for those whose performance has been enhanced by drugs, bionics, genetic engineering, and/or nanobots?






















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Is it ethical to force ones own philosophy on the rest of the world?

























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Should some opportunities or issues be left unexamined?

























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Should "For the long term good of humanity" be the principle of deciding among solutions to ethical issues?

























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Is it possible to create or evolve a set of ethical principles - hopefully global in nature - that is scientifically informed and not grounded in ancient and archaic belief systems about nature and humanity?

























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What is the trade-off between justice and compassion? Can we harm somebody’s right for justice in order to be compassionate to someone else?

























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Should the ethical concepts of individuals, cultures, or groups replaced by global ethics?

























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Would study of ethical codes derived from religious teaching result in a "universal" single ethical code?

























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If global ethics are promoted and used in decision making, what happens to individualism?

























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Can ethics be standardized for all the regions of the world?

























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Should we consider de-engineering society and cutting the world information umbilical chord to re-format to a more culturally homogenous local existence?

























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Is it ever ethical to exercise power in a manner that will make the user the aggressor in an interaction?

























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Should the promotion and protection of diversity always prevail on other values?

























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Should we need to discuss what kind ethics is reasonable or is a standard for the human being? what's the development direction of ethics?

























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Should long-term as well as the short-term futures get higher priorities?

























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Would a better understanding of ethical behavior and motivations lead to less violence?

























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Should there only be one educational and religious principle in order to achieve only one ethic?

























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Should an institutional consensus determine the ethics and values of different individuals and social groups?

























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How to create a common consciousness about the importance of values and the content of actions?

























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What type of ethical codes should be used to make economic, political, or social global decisions? How would these codes explain what should or should not be done for the common good of humanity, if we don't all belong within the same context, and neither are we at the same level of development?

























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Who should promulgate ethical codes and how should they be regulated internationally?

























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What are the values, globally, that should guide the consideration of ethical issues, particularly where it involves intervention against unwilling groups?















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