Unfit for the Future: A Brief Argument for Moral Enhancement
Unfit for the Future: A Brief Argument for Moral Enhancement

Author(s): Ingmar Persson
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Sociology
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: moral enhancement; human nature; technological risk; weapons of mass destruction; climate change; moral psychology; global cooperation
Summary/Abstract: It is easier for us to harm each other than it is for us to benefit each other, for instance, it is easier for us to kill than to save life. As the progress of scientific technology has increased our powers of action, our capacity to harm has reached the point at which it is possible for us to undermine worthwhile life on Earth forever.This could be done by the use of weapons of mass destruction or by causing catastrophic climatic and environmental changes. The problem is that our moral psychology has been adapted to life in small, close-knit societies with primitive technology, in which human beings have lived for the most part of their history.

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