This post brings up a lot of very important ethical questions. Science is becoming advanced enough for mankind to actually modify physical and biological systems in fundamental ways that challenge current ideas about the nature of the world and the nature of mankind. This is in some ways an unknown future and will call into question our notions of what is ethical and moral. I don’t view it with as much trepedation as the post does. We have little reason to view the current climate or the current nature of man as optimal. I am, however, a lot more comfortable with climate engineering than with human engineering. I guess for me its a moral issue. Are we sure that by modifying human nature we aren’t creating some fatal flaw that will result in disaster? How do we distinguish the genius of mankind from the evil lurking in every human soul, and is there a connection? That’s my ultimate fear, namely, that its impossible to elimate only the bad parts of human nature without eliminating the genius. It’s a challenging topic and I don’t have the answers, but its interesting to debate it.
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