[ExI] Vatican's list of seven 'social sins'

[Bryan Bishop]

On Monday 10 March 2008, Amara Graps wrote:
>      The seven social sins are:
>
>      1. "Bioethical" violations such as birth control

There is a blurring line between mental birth control (deciding not to) 
and pharmoceutical birth control. When are they going to start deciding 
that it is unethical to even think about _not_ replicating? Cancer.

>      2. "Morally dubious" experiments such as stem cell research

I guess they are uninterested in how some of us are able to reconcile 
morality with stem cell research? Shouldn't they be interested in 
adopting as much as possible into their world-view? Guess not.

>      3. Drug abuse

That's a hard line to find. It may be more productive to set up social 
services to help out people who may not be using drugs effectively. For 
example, in the case of the recent emails re: nootropics, I bet we are 
going to have to train fellows how to properly use their brains and any 
enhanced abilities, rather than expecting them to pop a pill and 
magically know.

>      4. Polluting the environment

Heh, some of us think religion is polluting the environment. Now what?
(signal-to-noise)

>      5. Contributing to widening divide between rich and poor

Moral wealth, or monetary wealth?

>      6. Excessive wealth

Is this asking for a limit on intelligence?

>      7. Creating poverty

That's a tough one. Any takers?

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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