PHIL20401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Exponential Growth
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Due to the fact that it is easier to harm, we tend to have a moral reluctance to harm that is stronger than our disposition to benefit. But to cope with the moral problems created by the advance of scientific technology, it seems that we would have to change radically in a short time. So we regard it as imperative to explore biological and medical means of moral enhancement, as a supplement to intensified moral education of a traditional sort. P1) we are now in a position to cause ultimate harm (to forever make worthwhile life on this planet impossible). P2) because we are psychologically myopic, there is considerable risk that we will cause ultimate harm. P3) we should consider whatever is most likely to minimize the chances of us causing ultimate harm. P4) moral enhancement by biomedical means is most likely to make us less psychologically myopic (tend to view as other or less important).
