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I'm the same way, although I think society is going to find itself wrestling with a lot of ethical issues it's not prepared for when suddenly everything about h
by derbOac 3y ago
I'm the same way, although I think society is going to find itself wrestling with a lot of ethical issues it's not prepared for when suddenly everything about human behavior is modifiable.
What happens when serial child predatory behavior is completely and verifiably modifiable with gene editing and pharmacology, for example? Should someone be punished for the random allotment of genes and circumstances that we can change as a society?
This is all on the horizon and we're not oriented to what's coming.
- didgeoridoo 3y agoSam Harris likes to point out that we tend to pity the UT tower shooter because he was found to have a tumor in his brain — and that just because child rapists don’t have a grossly visible defect in their skulls doesn’t mean that they aren’t suffering equally from bad anatomical luck to some extent. I recoil from the sentiment but can’t refute it.