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Title: Should Moral Enhancement Be Compulsory?
Author(s): GORDON, John-Stewart
Journal: Ethical Perspectives
Volume: 23    Issue: 2   Date: 2016   
Pages: 277-305
DOI: 10.2143/EP.23.2.3157184

Abstract :
Some authors fear that humanity is on the verge of its own extinction and must either change its behaviour or inevitably cause its own demise. This situation has spawned a vigorous (bio)ethical debate in recent years concerning whether one should enhance human beings cognitively or morally in order to promote moral action and reduce harm. This article defends making moral bioenhancement compulsory to avoid grossly immoral actions and the global extinction of humanity, if it is available, safe and easy to administer. Two crucial issues will be examined in more detail. First, moral enhancement and free will, and second, the applicability problem, which concerns one particular political
approach to accomplishing that goal.

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