<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 2015-11-16 23:14, Adrian Tymes
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<p dir="ltr">Unfortunately, it is also the truth: for the most
part, it's not a matter of making new laws, but of correctly
enforcing the ones we already have.</p>
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Currently many laws prevent enhancement - whether drug or
pharmaceutical laws banning non-therapeutic use, regulations making
doctors gatekeepers of any bodymodification technology, reprotech
laws banning certain forms of reproduction or genetic enhancement.
If you don't think these laws are right, you need to find arguments
why they are excessive in order to convince people to roll them
back.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or apply the correct enforcement: none, in this case.<br><br></div><div>Those laws are good evidence for why merely making new laws is not the best way to Do Something about new tech. That said, they also aren't ironclad: I've seen an increasing number of stories of people who test body modifications upon themselves, for instance. (I do not see it as a bad thing that, prior to sale to the general public, proposed modifications should be proven safe and effective. That there are rules and regulations about this does not make it impossible, or even unreasonable in many cases.)<br></div></div></div></div>