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



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939

What ethical controls might be needed to prevent governments from using technology to perpetuate individual or group stereotypes?










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950

Which would best serve the goal of a sustainable and sustaining global community: maintaining the status quo of focusing investment in technology development, or increased investment in social capital and promoting alternate value systems?










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675

With the growing amount of global problems, is it ethical that governments continue to play politics rather than work within and outside their countries to make hard decisions?










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835

Should the right to collective security be above individual liberty?










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589

Should animal testing (other than human) be legally allowed given that there is not a clear and necessary linkage between biological processes in humans and those in other animals?













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590

Should animal testing be allowed when simulations can provide the same information at the same level of probability?













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592

Will individuals maintain the "right to not know" and the maintenance of personal privacy from employers and insurance tables about their physical fate that can be discerned from gene-mapping?













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612

Would it be ethical to quarantine a continent or nation in order to prevent the expansion of a disease?













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626

Is it ethical that a current human capability be sacrificed in order to fully develop a newer one?













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643

In an age of obesity, has the state the ethical right to intervene into the nutritional habits of its population other than by education and taxes/benefits (e. g. prohibition of sweets)?













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645

Should euthanasia be legislated internationally and liberalized?













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668

If stem cells could be used for multiple applications in biological sciences, is it ethical to restrain its application only to those who could afford the cost?













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686

Is it right to remove the genetic history embodied in a stem cell that may contain potential for disability or impairment?













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688

How much freedom should individuals have to select the genetic make-up of their children?













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698

Is it ethical to use genetic engineering to create "designer babies"?













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711

As health cost and needs increase with aging populations, should health technologies and expensive health procedures for the very elderly be restricted, and if so on what ethical basis?













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741

Is it ethically acceptable to determine a human fetus sex by means of genetic manipulation though with parental consent?













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742

It is correct to prohibit world production of some kind of medicines to prevent people from a bad usage of them?













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788

Should transplanting of heads be considered ethical?













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798

Is it ethical to "genetically correct" people?













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866

What ethical criteria can help us decide what kinds of genetic intervention favor all live beings on earth ?













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897

Will clones be allowed to enjoy all human rights?













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916

Is it ethical to fight against obesity?













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919

What ethical principles should govern the distribution in poor countries of (possibly high-cost) drugs to fight AIDS, cancer, etc. .?













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921

Do we have the right to extend our healthy lives indefinitely through technology?













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928

Is it ethical to eliminate hereditary diseases by means of genetic manipulation.













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