[ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil

[Stefano Vaj]

On 12 January 2011 22:00, <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:

> Medicine is a very necessary component of human enhancement.  The person
> asking you this question was not clear and you could have told him/her that
> one of the most beneficial aspects of enhancement is its ethical and
> courageous use of medicine to help cure people from dreaded diseass and
> tragic injuries.
>

An additional, easy retort is that *medicine itself* has never been
perfectly orthodox from a utiitarian POV nor "sustainable" by any means. At
any given time, more human lives and suffering would have been spared by
reallocating globally the resources devoted to medical research, and to
actual day-by-day medicine for that matter, to some other end, such as
feeding the hungry, increasing safety, etc.

Yet it is part of very traditional medical ethics that, e.g., you do
whatever you can for the patient at hand.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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