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Moral Enhancement and the Public Good (Hardcover)
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Moral Enhancement and the Public Good (Hardcover)
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Currently, humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to
prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks,
like pandemics, climate change, or even asteroids. In Moral
Enhancement and the Public Good, Parker Crutchfield argues for the
controversial and initially counterintuitive claim that everyone
should be administered a substance that makes us better people.
Furthermore, he argues that it should be administered without our
knowledge. That is, moral bioenhancement should be both compulsory
and covert. Crutchfield demonstrates how our duty to future
generations and our epistemic inability to promote the public good
highlight the need for compulsory, covert moral bioenhancement.
This not only gives us the best chance of preventing widespread
suffering, compared to other interventions (or doing nothing), it
also best promotes liberty, autonomy, and equality. In a final
chapter, Crutchfield addresses the most salient objections to his
argument.
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