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



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326

Should the United Nations have the ethical duty and right to order any country to give help for other countries?










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354

Do governments have the right to impose collective values with out consulting the citizenship?










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356

Should international organizations sanction governments that attempt to interfere with the sovereignty of other countries or ask for the removal of their leaders?










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370

How to stop the growing corruption in the highest spheres of government against the increasing power of organized crime?










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374

Should a world government be formed?










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388

Is it ethical to impose democracy on all people, without taking into account their development, their culture and their habits and customs?










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509

Should global governance mechanisms to require consensus as is presently the case in many UN bodies?










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519

Should states with military superiority get authorization to perform in other territories, on behalf of the citizens, by means of a vote?










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530

Is it ethical, in voting, for all people to have the same weight in populations with very unequal educative levels?










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535

Is it ethical to allow countries and/or poor communities to become impoverished by leaders with misguided or anachronistic policies?










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539

What ethical policies would allow the international community to establish electoral conditions in a country with an authoritarian electoral system?










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546

Is it ethical for countries to reject the International Court; should the ICC exercise its power over all countries, especially, over those who have arms of mass destruction?










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552

In light of global warming and the imminent threat of ‘water wars’, would it not be ethical to establish international regulatory bodies to monitor the distribution of the world’s limited supply of fresh water?










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568

Is it right for a government or politicians to alter a mandate given them by the voters without consulting with the voters first?










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Do we have a right to physically enhance ourselves through genetic manipulation?













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Does society have a right to physically enhance animals? (e.g. through biotechnology)













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59

Do we have the right to clone ourselves or other human beings?













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74

Does a country have the right to prohibit animals cloning?













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101

Is it ethical to initiate and operate a global commercial market in “spare” body parts?













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118

Should the confidentiality and private life of the individuals be compromised to detect people who have infectious diseases in an effort to avoid epidemics and pandemics?













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134

Is it right that new treatments for extending human life should divert resources from improving health outcomes for everyone else?













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152

Is it ethical to spend most health care funds on the sick elderly and the new born sick?













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153

What is the ethical way to manage the process of dying - and to allow individuals to choose when and how they wish to die?













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160

When the genes causing serious disease are identified will we allow "treatments" to overcome those genetic abnormalities?













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161

When the genes causing serious disease are identified, is it ethical to require treatment for these conditions by penalizing those who do not consent to be treated?













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171

Is "mass medication,” which clearly holds benefits for the majority, ever ethically justified?













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