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



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984

How can global health inequities in areas such as health, environment, energy, water, and agriculture be improved?


































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1018

Is there any ethical reason to restrain or regulate migration of peoples?


































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1030

Should ethical citizens have the option of being "accredited" and then given special privileges; e.g. lower taxation rates; facilitated passage through airports; more public health care and education subsidies for themselves and their children; etc?


































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1035

Should we require derelict and abandoned cities and suburbs be repopulated and rehabilitated instead of new areas being developed?


































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1037

Is it ethical to allow the possibility of risk to exist in society, if the means are available to remove it?


































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1067

Are there measures or indicators of ethical competence?


































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1079

How can ethics improve interpersonal relationships in a world of technological progress?


































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1092

What are the ethics that would ensure that the countries and races over the whole world would really enjoy equal rights, with no discrimination at all?


































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1115

Would it be ethical to have different levels of human rights (highly intelligent and trust worthy persons, normal, semi-, lowered, minimal, none)?


































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1130

Is it ethical to make a family responsible for the moral deviation of one of its members?


































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1150

If by then there are still people interested in the future, will it be possible for them to still have the desire to think about the loving essence of people?


































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1152

What ethical principles should guide the development of equality in various spheres of human activity?


































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1218

Should there be special rights over humans produced by genetic manipulation?


































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1013

Should the number of children that pairs can procreate be genetically and/or legally limited in order to mitigate the consequences of overpopulation and worldwide poverty?





































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1015

In view of virtual reality and new work relationships, should the rights of the child be reformulated, and what should they be?





































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1034

How should ethical principles be restructured to reflect the aging of the population and the increased capabilities of the aged?





































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1036

Is it ethical to make decisions about life/career paths for the unborn, especially if you have the power to cause these decisions to be implemented?





































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1109

Do we have a right to genetically interfere with newborns or embryos, because their genetic code shows a high probability for future violent behavior?





































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1120

Should individuals have the right to reproduce by any means available?





































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1133

Is state-imposed birth control ethical in order to control the world's over population?





































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1159

Would it be ethical to create human beings for specific purposes?





































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1177

Is it ethical to promote an effort to reduce or stabilize human population?





































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1182

Is it ethically right to have laws that forbid child-bearing to people with serious genetic impairments?





































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1196

What are the ethics (including consent of the mother and of the father) for transferring fetuses to artificial matrices?





































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1227

Should parents be allowed to use genetic manipulation to practice selective breeding, creating ‘designer babies’ at will?





































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992

Should euthanasia be legislated internationally and liberalized?








































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1002

Are we allowed to abolish death?








































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1026

Should compulsory euthanasia, in certain circumstances, be introduced? What circumstances would warrant compulsory euthanasia?








































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1041

Given the declining fertility rate and aging populations of many western countries, is it ethical for first world countries to export their aged and import the young from eastern or African world countries?








































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1119

Should individuals have the right to prolong their lives by any means available?








































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1139

Is prolongation of life with youth drugs or special brain operations ethical?








































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1147

With the use of technological discoveries, will the difference between life and death still be in force?








































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1178

How should the phenomenon of humankind aging be handled?








































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1181

Is it right to allow exercising voluntary euthanasia for heavily ill patients and very old people?








































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1200

What are the ethics that should control the treatment (including death) of mutant humans, whether produced naturally or experimentally?








































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1207

Do we have the right to extend life-span without limit?








































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1213

Is ethical to use technology in order to achieve infinite life?








































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1228

Is it ethical to attempt to extend human life indefinitely, in the light of limited global resources?








































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1234

Should the increase in the length of life be required to be accompanied by an equivalent improvement of the quality of life in later years?








































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967

Should industrial development be moved off-world, to orbit, asteroids, and the Moon, so environmentally damaging processes are minimized here?











































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975

Is it ethically correct to modify - through terraforming - the entire ecosystem of another planet? What if there is indigenous life on the planet already?











































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983

What are the criteria to select people for living in certain environments, if life on earth would be no longer possible?











































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985

Do we have a right to colonize other planets and use their resources?











































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988

Is it ethical to colonize uninhabited planets?











































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989

Should we terraform other lifeless worlds for the benefit of humankind?











































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990

Should we interfere with the development of lower forms of life in other planets?











































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1019

Should there be applied different ethical standard to extraterrestrial life?











































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1059

Do we have unlimited right to exploit other planets' resources (mineral, etc.)?











































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1063

Would it be ethical to apply the laws of a particular country or an international code to rule and/or judge the actions of aliens that may land on Earth?











































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1098

What are the ethical principles that will help guide encounters with alien intelligent life?











































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1099

Is colonization of the moon and planets ethical?











































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1114

Has mankind got the right to "interplanetary colonialism"?











































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1123

What are the relevant criteria for living on other planets? Would it be the financial and health ability or the expertise in science and technology?











































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1134

What is the ethical way of planning human colonization outside our planet?











































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1136

What ethical principles should govern the selection (e.g. diversity) of populations for planetary colonization?











































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1140

Is it ethical to start selling plots of land on other planets?











































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1164

What ethical principles should guide the colonization of other planets or planet systems?











































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1180

Should interests of intelligent aliens be taken into account during outer space development?











































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1186

What are the ethics involved in communication with extraterrestrials, e.g., frankness regarding terrestrial defenses?











































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1199

In the event of a planetary evacuation, what ethics should determine compensation for the entities providing the transport mechanisms?











































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1201

Is it ethical to modify on a grand scale the environmental conditions of another planet, if it is verified that there exist life forms that could be affected?











































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1215

Is it ethical to live in space?











































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1217

What are the ethics involved with new forms of social relationships based on contacts with extraterrestrials?











































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1225

What ethical considerations should be contemplated for our use, ownership, or treatment of resources or other life forms in outer space?











































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991

Is it right to create self-evolving machines?














































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997

If intelligent cybernetic organisms would be developed, would they have same rights as the humans? Or would these organisms be slaves?














































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1022

Should self-reproducing technologies be imbued with self-limiting ethical rules that limit their capacity to reproduce unethical capacities –e.g. the issues with Asimov’s prime rules?














































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1028

Should the emergence of a new species of man/machines be encouraged or outlawed? How should these developments be controlled?














































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1045

Does the production of organisms that are out of human control (e.g., nanorobots, self-replicants) require ethical restrictions to be imposed??














































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1058

Is it right to computer augment or genetically enhance our brains?














































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1060

Which kind of humanitarian law should be applied in the case of armed conflicts involving robots?














































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1070

Is it right to increase population and create artificial intelligences without solving humanity's issues such as quality of life, abundance and peace?














































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1072

What is the ethical priority of technological devices vs. human beings as their users?














































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1076

With the development of artificial intelligence, will humans become less important?














































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1086

What ethics are necessary in a world shared by natural and artificial intelligences?














































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1104

What should be the "human rights" of intelligent machines, i.e. those able to have or show emotions? How can such machines be punished ?














































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1108

In case of humane-machine-mergers, how do you define what is still a machine and what is a human being and vice versa?














































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1110

Should there be some kind of barrier or limit in the course of the possible mixture of mankind and machines (e.g. by implants) to preserve and protect the human being?














































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1111

What ethics should govern the development of transhumans?














































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1112

What ethics should govern activities which access and/or modify human mental processes?














































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1144

Should freedom of expression of intelligent and spiritual computers be respected?














































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1145

Will ethics of digital machines surpass and impose itself on human ethics?














































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1175

Are there any machines to which human-like rights should be granted?














































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1176

Is it ethical to create transhumans for space exploration and colonization?














































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1184

As the Net/Web presumably evolves into a Global Mind, what ethics needs to be developed to guide its processes?














































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1220

In case that the artificial intelligence surpasses the human intelligence that created it, is it ethical to prevent its dominance over the humans and its consequences?














































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1223

What ethical guidelines should be put in place to guard against the threat of intended or unintended ‘virus’ exchanges in direct neural brain and computer linkages?














































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1226

Should the brains of transhuman, cyborg, or robotic life forms be subject to the same privacy protections as now exist for humans?














































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987

Should deceased people maintained by cryogenics be brought back to life, while others perish for lack of money?

















































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1061

Should elimination of aging and disease be available to everyone or just to those who can afford the treatments?

















































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1116

Is it right that only rich people can afford to enjoy space settlements?

















































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1195

Is it ethical for genetic engineering to improve the condition of human beings to be based on the payment capacity of the wealthiest?

















































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1008

Should genetic modification for personal use be considered a crime?




















































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