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



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930

Is it ethical to decode one's DNA to achieve new scientific understanding, and immunological and protein improvement?













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931

Is it ethical to provide one's DNA code to create other human beings?













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942

Should there be mandated limits to human genetic manipulation?













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960

Is it ethical not to use advanced biotechnology, despite its side effects, when clearly it can benefit millions of people?













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825

Is it ethical to treat the health of the human being like a business?













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615

Is the real-time unauthorized broadcast of our activities ethical, especially if it is manipulated (for example if our clothed body is overlaid with a naked body in real time and rebroadcast)?
















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667

Is ethical to put rights -that survive the inventor- over elements that would be needed for human subsistence, like the case of medication or foods?
















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674

Is it ethical for energy companies to continue to buy up patents for solar and other types of non-carbon based energy?
















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689

Is it ethical to allow the copyrighting of genetic material and even of life forms?
















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744

Is it not right to have medical and other intellectual property available for the good of humanity?
















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885

Is it right not to consider any newly pronounced idea as its author's intellectual property?
















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943

Should the patenting of genes for commercial purposes be allowed?
















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600

Who owns information? How will the relationships between a global society and a global economy be determined?



















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670

Should access to information be controlled on the basis of concern about eventual risks for collective security?



















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759

High speed internet brings a lot of useless information (e.g. trashy email). What ethical issues are involved in coping with this?



















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848

In the age of idleness, would it not be ethical for should the media to broadcast programs that promote a productive life?



















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862

How could the common good be defined in terms of information and what steps could be taken for those that go against it?



















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883

Should any statement by correspondents, politicians, etc. without specific references to its source be considered a plagiarism?



















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884

Should any repeated statement be viewed as pollution with information (information pollution)?



















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597

Is it ethical to develop global web-based curricula that can be used by individuals and groups around the world that imbeds any particular political or religious philosophy at the expense of individual country or state culture?



















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598

Should we/can we limit access to information?



















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621

Is it ethical to recreate deceased family members from their cells?






















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622

Is it ethical to recreate ancestors from their DNA?






















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632

Is it ethical for society to utilize DNA to create superhuman?






















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642

Has the state the right to change the psyche of violent criminals; e. g. by aggression-suppressing drugs or implants?






















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648

What are the ethical issues associated with making (and making available) technology that would enable individuals to record their dreams






















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673

Is it ethical to pursue bio-medical technologies to reduce the masculine propensity for violence and domination?


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