Another new document, kind of silly actually:
Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions and Answers
Prepared for: US National Science Foundation
Prepared on: August 31, 2009
This work is sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, under
awards # 0620694 and 0621021.
Forget about Pocket PCs, mobile phones, GPS devices, and other portable gadgets; we might soon be able to communicate and access those capabilities without having to carry any external device,
thus raising our productivity, efficiency, response time, and other desirable measures—in short, enabling us to even better survive our world. [...or not, bwa-hahaha!]
20. Is there an obligation in some circumstance to be enhanced?
In some circumstances, there may be an obligation or at least a strong argument to enhance. Assuming vaccinations are enhancements, we have an obvious example of a case in which enhancements are required or at least strongly recommended.
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23. Should there be limits on enhancements allowed, e.g., for military purposes?
At this stage, without knowing exactly what kinds of human enhancing devices and treatments
will be invented, the answer is unclear.
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24. Might enhanced humans count as someone’s intellectual property? [again, bwa-hahaha!]
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http://www.humanenhance.com/NSF_report.pdf