Re: Beating a dead horse?(Was: Transhumanist Principles)

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 08 1998 - 13:44:29 MDT


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Hal Finney wrote:
>Based on this rather cautious principle, I would tentatively classify
>the above procedures as moral, as long as they were done carefully so
>that suffering was minimized.

I'm dubious of this conclusion... By this premise, all of the above would
necessarily be moral if they were created in such a way that they were
always (artificially) happy, no matter how difficult or otherwise painful
their circumstances...

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