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The problem with transhumanism is in the inequality it potentially engenders and the subsequent questions it poses about moral models of responsibility. If you
by derbOac 5y ago
The problem with transhumanism is in the inequality it potentially engenders and the subsequent questions it poses about moral models of responsibility. If you can engineer a better human, aren't you now obligated to accept responsibility for the failings of those you don't improve? You can't control the behavior of the improved, albeit stochastically and indirectly, without implicitly accepting that those you don't aren't responsible.
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- thatguy0900 5y agoI don't think that tracks with how we currently treat kids. We already know how to engineer a better human with high quality childhood nutrition and education and we could go even further with parental support programs, but what you get as a child is already entirely up to where you are born.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoYour argument depends on a flawed and deterministic outlook of human improvement. Your premise that there is a mandate of responsibility to "better" other human beings is the justification of the philosopher-king dictatorship. It eerily resembles the argument made by Soviet Russia for push towards homo sovieticus. There is no such thing an inherent responsibility towards bettering others. Responsibilities are instruments, not ends in and of themselves. If wanting to "ascend" to being a greater individual is the choice of said of the individual, he should every right to, crab bucket be dammed.
- derbOac 5y agoI think logically if you accept the premise that some can be improved, then you have to answer the question of why not others. It's a moral opportunity cost, and equivalent to withholding food or water. The costs compound to society at large though if withholding improvement affects others. It's a moral question that has nothing to do with economic systems.