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



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2010- 2025

corp and econ

educatn

environ

govmt

biotech health

intel prop

media

new front

philos

political

S&T

social

birth/pop growth

death ageing

space

brain/AI

who pays for it

crime




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100.00

7.96

1.59

8.60

7.32

8.60

2.23

2.87

4.14

7.64

6.37

9.87

12.42

4.78

4.46

2.23

4.14

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2.87

583

Is it ethical for predominantly profit motives to drive the world's economic engine?

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629

Can ethical and economic issues be merged into one perspective?

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651

It is ethical for companies to request of their applicants a genetic map that informs about future diseases, and to use that information in hiring decisions?

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677

Should international law be introduced to govern or control the relentless creation of wealth at the cost of destroying the natural wealth of the planet?

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678

Should the economic concept of maximizing economic growth on a planet with finite resources be recognized as an ethical fallacy?

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703

Should certain products be banned from production and sale on the grounds that they are trivial and wasteful of resources?

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716

What ethical responsibility do corporations have to address the causes of world poverty?

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730

Should we measure countries "intangible assets" to define a new concept of richness and prosperity?

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748

How can ethics be introduced effectively in commercial relationships?

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774

Is it ethical to distribute the world's rare resources according to possession or money? What should be done when somebody has more then he needs, yet others remains below their needs?

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780

What ethical considerations should guide regulation of the global market to prevent the further spread of organized crime?

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802

Is it right to set a global limit for individual prosperity?

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804

Is it ethical for a few people to be exceedingly wealthy?

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817

Is it ethical for the world pharmaceutical industry to inflate the price of needed drugs?

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820

Is an economic system that puts individual or group interests before those of the totality ethical?

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859

Is it ethical for some countries to have food surpluses that are destroyed while in others thousands of people die of hunger?

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860

Is it ethical for advertising and propaganda to induce the consumption of unnecessary products and specific social behavior for economic and political purposes?

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889

Is it right to allow excessive consumption since there are so many people deprived of bare life necessities?

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898

Is it right to pursue a policy aimed at stagnation of technological development in order to preserve the economic stability of some social groups?

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915

Is the World Bank and IMF worldwide support for individualism ethical?

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947

Is it right to legislate that government monetary and environmental policies be structured in such a way that will limit how much national ‘debt’ accrues for future generations to carry?

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951

Given the rapidly depleting fossil fuel resources, is a global export economy still justifiable?

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953

Is it ethical for countries with oil or water reserves to export these to the detriment of their own citizens?

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