[ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 11:36:20 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Stefano Vaj  wrote:
> But even within medicine itself, traditional, time-honoured ethical
> rules which provides for doing first everything of anything for the
> patient at hand sharply collide with a utilitarian point of view,
> which might require that scalpel be dropped during surgery should the
> physician's attention would be more productive in terms of general
> happiness if devoted instead to the five new cases in the anteroom.
>
>


Which is why the utilitarian POV is detested by humanity except in
immediate life or death circumstances. Like triage - a doctor choosing
who to treat when a bomb goes off in a crowded stadium.

It is well known that the majority of medical costs are spent in the
last year or two of life. So the utilitarian POV would provide
euthanasia chambers for that group and all the money saved could be
used to start another war somewhere.

If transhumanists advocate utilitarian medical treatment they will be
outcasts in society and universally hated.


BillK



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