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If science invented a way to turn each human into an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God, bioethicists would have an essay five minutes later about how d
by civilized 4y ago
If science invented a way to turn each human into an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God, bioethicists would have an essay five minutes later about how deeply problematic it was.
No one loves throwing cold water over literally everything more than bioethicists.
- BurningFrog 4y agoAs a bioethicist, your job description is to find a problematic angle on anything. No one is paying you to say everything is fine!
- civilized 4y agoHm, is that an ethical way to approach ethics? I think it's problematic, honestly.
- bpodgursky 4y agoThe field of bioethics would never pass an IRB.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAny alternatives?
- civilized 4y agoBalanced consideration of positives and negatives rather than a focus on only negatives which is so strained and obsessive, it seems to be a professional requirement?
- kelseyfrog 4y agoWhat do you know about metaethics?
- civilized 4y agoEnough to say that only looking at risks is not an ethical way to approach ethics.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoAny proof or is it a gut feeling or hot take?
- civilized 4y agoI think it's self-evident. If you disagree, feel free to do so in a more interesting way than your questions have been so far. Otherwise, it's probably best we stop here.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoThe truth of reality is that it's not self-evident. Anyone saying otherwise has an agenda. It's pretty cut and dry. Self-evidence is a form of assumption making I have no time for. Thank you.
- civilized 4y agoAny proof of all that, or is it a gut feeling or hot take?
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