Comments on: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering http://plausiblefutures.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/the-case-against-perfection-ethics-in-the-age-of-genetic-engineering/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:45:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Chris http://plausiblefutures.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/the-case-against-perfection-ethics-in-the-age-of-genetic-engineering/#comment-5400 Chris Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:01:07 +0000 http://plausiblefutures.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/the-case-against-perfection-ethics-in-the-age-of-genetic-engineering/#comment-5400 Another quote by another philosopher might help with this question as well, with regard to narrow concept individuals like Mr. Sandel.. "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." Arthur Schopenhauer Why should we listen to people who would have us limit ourselves to such a narrow vision? Another quote by another philosopher might help with this question as well, with regard to narrow concept individuals like Mr. Sandel..

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Why should we listen to people who would have us limit ourselves to such a narrow vision?

]]> By: Chris http://plausiblefutures.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/the-case-against-perfection-ethics-in-the-age-of-genetic-engineering/#comment-5399 Chris Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:52:58 +0000 http://plausiblefutures.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/the-case-against-perfection-ethics-in-the-age-of-genetic-engineering/#comment-5399 “consists in a persisting negotiation with the given.” To abolish the given by re-engineering not only our world but also ourselves would “leave us with nothing to affirm or behold outside our own will.” What?? This is the usual jibberish of bio-cons and those who promote the pre-Enlightenment concepts of God's will that we all suffer and die like mindless animals. Freedom is the right of the individual to choose to take as much control of thier own personal destiny as is possible, or to choose not. "Freedom is Slavery" "War is Peace" is just a more simplistic version of the same thought . Do we not always try to "perfect"ourselves within the limits of what is possible? Using genetics or nano-technology will just give us better tools. “consists in a persisting negotiation with the given.” To abolish the given by re-engineering not only our world but also ourselves would “leave us with nothing to affirm or behold outside our own will.”

What?? This is the usual jibberish of bio-cons and those who promote the pre-Enlightenment concepts of God’s will that we all suffer and die like mindless animals.

Freedom is the right of the individual to choose to take as much control of thier own personal destiny as is possible, or to choose not.

“Freedom is Slavery” “War is Peace” is just a more simplistic version of the same thought .

Do we not always try to “perfect”ourselves within the limits of what is possible? Using genetics or nano-technology will just give us better tools.

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