With
the news that Chinese scientists have developed new and improved
techniques of cutting and splicing genes of adults and fetuses
therein enabling reconfiguration of the human genome with inheritable
traits the issue of ethics has appeared too. Is it ethical to alter
the human genome it is asked. One must reply-what is ethics besides a
post hoc description of what people actually do?
If scientists exploiting frankendesign can invent a politician with a working brain able to get his head around environmental economics-perhaps splitting in two or more parts like a Resident Evil creature, will it be possible to make progress on ecological economics and get rid of fossil fuel vehicles once and for all?
If scientists exploiting frankendesign can invent a politician with a working brain able to get his head around environmental economics-perhaps splitting in two or more parts like a Resident Evil creature, will it be possible to make progress on ecological economics and get rid of fossil fuel vehicles once and for all?
There
are numerous systems of ethics one may choose from-there is not a
social election of ethics and those used if any differ from country
to country and group to group. In the United States and possibly
China utilitarian ethics may b e popular among elites if they have
any. Utilitarian developed by John Stuart Mill seeks the greatest
good of the greatest number, yet defining what the good is, who
defines it, and quantifying it as well as applying methods to
actualize the good are subjective factors that make the utilitarian
incomplete ethics.
In
practice the socially and political advantaged tend to definitions
with an inherent bias toward the greatest good comprising selections
that benefit elites. Concentrating wealth is regarded as the best way
to advance society and free enterprise and if democracy is lost in
the process, that is good. Thus the ethics of genomic modification is
decided in term of social and financial advantage to the rich and
powerful rather than upon its probable maladaptive effects upon the
human genome. Changing the human genome intentionally rather than
allowing nature and God to adjust it over time is comparable to human
caused extermination of species stimulating a cascade of mass
extinction.
Even
so, the classical economics and politics criterion that puts
utilitarian ethics forward as an abstract way to reinforce
concentration of wealth within classical economic parameters instead
of evolving ecological economic procedures quickly and intentionally
through the excellent tool of democracy seems to be increasing the
environmental breakdowns that endanger the future stability of life
on Earth. For the larger questions of mass social existence in an
increasingly unhealthy ecosphere the question of ‘is it ethical’
seems somehow inadequate.
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/4/8547797/what-is-crispr gene engineering tool
Someone
might wonder if it would be ethical for Autobots to transform into
Decepticons and vice versa with equal meaninglessness in regard to
the existential and ecospheric state-of-the-world. Insular ethical
universes with moral relativism embedded within a social reality
discognizant of empirical reality are ethics of mass social
narcissism.
quotes
from 'Temporal Cross Currents'...
"Amidst
stalactites oozing with production builder’s cheese and grim
stalagmites sand blasted smoothness pervaded the central expanse of
the chamber. New data-casts from a Martian info network covered the
concave curve with shots of illegal aliens arrested on the West Bank
of the Drake Sea in below the sand enclaves of chthonic huts dug and
solidified with high temperature incendiary grenades.
The
story moved on to coverage beyond the edge. Illegal aliens made
joyrides from the solar system spanning Electro-magnetic tensor
acceleration grid. Accelerated close to the value of c between the
solar orbit base and Pluto the journey took under two months Earth
Relativity Time yet the destination for inbound Ort-side miners was
often Mars on the midnight express.
With
a tenth generation stealth suit spaced shuttle divers could jump off
the common carriers and vector to Mars and with a low chute opening
have a good chance of not burning up in the atmosphere or slamming
into Mars at very high speed when the suit's hot-fast guidance
software is without imps. Para-chutes developed into artificial
intelligence target selected anti-gravity anti-particle field shapers
scaling in response to drop zone characteristics.
Space
jumpers traveling fast enough to make ripples in the Martian Colony
air control scopes were toasted with air defrag particle beams. Extra
planetary jumps with a significant portion of light speed male a
disturbance in space-time gravitational field monitors with their
enhanced mass. Corporate neural-mach circuits in the Solar System
track everything in motion off-worlds that isn't competitively
stealth shrouded.
Macarthur
pensively pondered scenes of illegal alien intruders swelling the
ranks of Martians and part of the cause of the meeting of the five.
Martians are polarizing along political lines for Martian
Independence or continuing submission to the rule of Corporate
Interplanetary and droves of migrants sent outside the law to
increase Corporate profits with cheap mercenary labor.
The
aliens are mostly from post-chaos Earth and bring attitudes of
socialized conditioning inimical to Martian Independence "So
what" he said thought aloud..."They are independent
for-themselves". The peace of the Pax Americana on Earth ended
when the nation itself was finally subsumed in the inevitable
Corporate planetary economization and civilization began to destroy
itself when there were no frontiers on Earth left to conquer.
Some
politicians argued for Adam Smith’s unlimited business frontier in
which pure Capitalism’s needs not national borders would determine
where people could travel to work. Environmentalism was painted as an
exclusive practice of apartheid seeking elites trying to create areas
proscribed for capitalists and non-European peoples to travel in.
Circumstances
sometimes define the best adaptation of economic theories instead of
abstract ideal economic forms that work perfectly in thought yet have
problems in application. Paradigms in which theories occur usually
pre-exist the creation of economic theories. Close plausible causal
approximation of an empirical economic realm may seem accurate and
spur confidence in the moral rightness of vested political and
economic interests comprising an obstacle to recognition of other
factors of the economic circumstance beyond the theory.
Wave
after wave of illegal immigrants arrived full grown to be factory
workers, field hands and minions of monopolistically capitalized
Interplanetary Corporate elites who needed new employees for
expansion and growing profits and found none in the placid and stable
native-born citizens of Mars Colony. International and planetary
trade came to mean redistributing production and independence across
borders and into corporatist control. Productive independent nations
had production outsourced incrementally and the people were reduced
to comfortable dependent political drones.
Martians
reached a stable ecological stasis in biospheric production with
fifty million souls and were content to remain at that number for a
few hundred years. They had placed a population capstone at the
summit of Olympus Mons.
Outlaw
immigrants and offspring flanked the plans of native Martians with
innate loyalty to Corporate. Decreasing Martian native political
power was one of the factors that worked toward quickening Rebel
attack measures in Novo Miklagarth.
Most
immigration to Mars had become forbidden by law at a session of the
Council of Fifty Representatives. The Fifty allowed a small and
balanced proportional quota of legal immigrants from all humanoid
settlements not on the most unfavored nation list to provide a
stablishment of diversity. Some immigrants were fifth column
terrorists interested mainly in finding suitable safe cover identity
as reliable workers in order to have an opportunity for clandestine
sabotage and terrorism. Nogo Ooze’s exfiltrators arrived as tools
from Waha Wul."
"Maybe
mass hadn't even the potential for mind originally, except for a
design before the Universe was created. Perhaps one believes that an
accident nevertheless spurred mass into producing mind at some point.
Mind differs from mass/matter at least as much as any other basic
force of physics differs from another, and more so as far as I am
concerned.
Macarthur
said "I can't help wondering aloud Voevoda, if the Earth
space-backs are genetically unraveling as badly as most ordinary
wretches of Earth. Eighty thousand human genes few have been monkeyed
with in bioengineering labs producing business errors, eco-wars and
recombinant digression.
In
Earth year 6000 before Christ more than 25% of men in local
skirmishes died of head wounds, that was a catastrophic time era for
homicide beyond regular battlefields. Human bio-nature hasn't
fundamentally changed, nor shall it imbued with original biological
form sin organically consuming mass. Intelligence with God can
overcome deficits of sin.
Standard
patent Corporate-structured DNA molds have been subjected to
unlimited pirating and result in quasi-modes of functionality. Some
of the coeds presenting at the campus infirmary have symptoms of
close-encounter disease of the worst kind transmitting unraveling
syndrome probably contracted through sleeping with the buggers in the
underground. My notes are coded in time-access window account
anticline."
Kelkal
asked “Do you have a non-deficit generating dense strategy?”
“One
must defend against particular things including debt.” Macarthur
said softly.
I
asked "What have you seen Cromwell, and how bad is it?"
"Delayed
and uncertain foetel gene stablishment for one thing. Anytime in the
life cycle the proto-human’s x or y chromosomes as well as other
genes can molecularly unravel, disassemble or recombine with chaotic
permutation. It’s a catastrophic transitional mess that oozes to
Hades" Macarthur paused.
Genuine
finished most of his omelet a fork to spear a chunks of eggplant and
sharp cheddar and said; ”We can try to define the extent of the
problem yet we must drift toward shaping an action policy."
I
noticed his fork method and thought it a behavioral artifact of
extra-planetary days."
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