It's not unethical to make metal into a tool. If you use that for evil, then it is. How about a living being? Is it right to make that into any form we desire? My point was that metal has no 'rights' in and of itself, life does.
I didn't say I feared bioengineering, just that the possibilities it's offering are providing huge new moral questions that will have massive consequences on the future. That we hold the power to decide these things now, the responsibility to choose wisely, is a very sobering thought. Maybe sobering is a better word than scary. Does it not chill you even a little to think of what getting these things wrong will mean?
I agree we should learn all we can and not be afraid of that, all I'm saying is we shouldn't just do things because we can, we must decide some ground rules on this issue. The ethics of bioengineering is what I want to discuss.
I didn't say I feared bioengineering, just that the possibilities it's offering are providing huge new moral questions that will have massive consequences on the future. That we hold the power to decide these things now, the responsibility to choose wisely, is a very sobering thought. Maybe sobering is a better word than scary. Does it not chill you even a little to think of what getting these things wrong will mean?
I agree we should learn all we can and not be afraid of that, all I'm saying is we shouldn't just do things because we can, we must decide some ground rules on this issue. The ethics of bioengineering is what I want to discuss.
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