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



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969

Is it ethical to attempt to create another species that could evolutionarily outrank humans?













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973

Is it ethically correct to create new species?













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979

What ethics should control access by all to the advanced gene therapies for curing severe diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or cancer, regardless of economic status?













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995

Does society have a right to prohibit the creation of "superhumans"?













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1010

Should pairs have the right to procreate if scientific information shows that their descendants may have some type of disease because of genetic heritage?













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1017

What ethical reason could be acceptable to replace the natural conception?













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1042

Should parents DNA be given to science to grow medi-children so as they can farmed for replacement body parts?













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1048

Can people that get transhuman abilities claim the right of being considered humans?













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1064

Should there be ethical bounds on the use of technology to produce certain behaviors in infants and children?













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1105

Do we have a right to clone our ancestors? If we do, do they have a right to claim their property back?













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1106

Does a clone have the same rights as the original person?













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1107

Is it ethical to delay dying as long as possible, or to make living forever possible?













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1209

Is it ethical to attack diseases with the use of cell-microchips?













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1212

Is it ethical to change a person's behavior by insertion of a microchip or other invasive procedure?













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1062

Should we use technology to create a highly appealing experiential world through simulators in which we could live lives closer to our ideals?



















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1082

Are ethics needed to protect printed books, competing with electronic media?



















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1222

Will the ethics that are now predominant replaced by media established values?



















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996

What measures should there be to control a so-called "superhuman" with the power to harm humans?






















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998

If people learn to understand animal communication, should we then respect their will, e.g. their opinion about being hunted?






















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1080

What ethics will define and prevent technological crime in a world with transhumans?






















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1128

Would it be ethical to create superior beings without sexual differences?






















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1131

Would it be ethical to genetically modify humans so as to utilize an energy source other than food, in order to improve the planetary ecology?






















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1132

Is it ethical to repopulate the seas with genetically designed fish and mammals?






















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1143

Is it ethical to develop organisms or artificial means that can change the morphology and function of human beings?






















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1149

If the recipe for happiness has been found, how will its appropriate use be defined?






















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1170

Is there an ethical obligation to accept in social, ethical, and political terms new kinds of creatures (partly animals + partly artificial and partly human + partly artificial and any possible combinations)?





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