Re: SOC/BIO: Survey on US attitudes toward germ-line genetic selection

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 09:23:36 MST


Hal Finney wrote:
>Ask the question openly: "Do you think other people should be allowed to
>do only those things that you would choose to do?" Then ask, for each
>of these controversial uses of technology, "Would you choose to do this?"
>and "Would you allow others to choose to do this?" Wording the questions
>like this would get people thinking about whether they are so sure of
>their own choices in these complex issues that they would force others
>to follow them.

This is an interesting idea, but I'm not very confident that
it would produce answers more in the direction you hope.

Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
Asst. Prof. Economics, George Mason University
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