RE: Engaging Bioethics

From: Alex Future Bokov (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 15:50:23 MDT


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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Robin Hanson wrote:

> Regarding my talk, they had no complaints about my ethics, but
> had doubts about my social science. I'll be presenting the same paper
> in a few weeks to some social scientists - let's see if they complain
> mainly about my ethics :-).
>
> The people I talked to seemed to think that genetic augmentation issues
> were mostly a big overblown yawn. They were mostly reasonable people.
> They thought cryonics was too silly even to think about.

So what do they think are the crucial bioethics issues of the day? At any
rate, I'm glad to hear they don't take us seriously. Maybe it buys us a
few more years before they decide we need to be protected from ourselves
or some such.

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