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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-11-16 01:02, William Flynn
Wallace wrote:<br>
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class="im">what are your views on<br>
> how to draw lines about what modifications are "right"
or "wrong"?<br>
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class="im">Whatever restrictions are put in place, someone
and somewhere else will ignore them the way Americans have
to go overseas to get certain treatments and drugs.<br>
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This misses the point entirely. I suppose you do not think US crimes
(say torturing people for fun) that are legal in some shady place
are less immoral because they are legal over there, nor because US
people could go there to indulge? It might not be possible to stop
it, but morally you would say it would be better if it did not
happen.<br>
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(Sorry, but conflating legal and ethical gets my goat).<br>
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What I am looking at is ethical views in the transhumanist community
on what enhancements or modifications should be done. Is trepanation
OK to do, despite the nonexistent scientific support for it being
good - and if it is OK, why? What about replacing my personality
with another one? What about replacing my consciousness with
something entirely different but consciousness-like?<br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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