Re: Basic Nanotech Ethics - - Can vs. Should

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: 15 Jul 2004 03:33:50 GMT

friendlykind wrote:

 
> In light of the above, let us observe that the task of nanotech ethics
> is to determine, not what we "can" do; rather, it is to determine what
> we "should" do. Once we determine the "should", all that falls
> outside the domain of the "should" would automatically reside in the
> domain of the "should not".

   Accepted. Now try to get something resembling universal agreement on
what we 'should' do with the ability. My ideas of what we 'should' do
may be different fron yours, and ours may differ from anyone else's.
Nanotech applications are no different from any other technological
capability or use of resources (including financial) in this respect.

   Defining the problem is not the same as solving it. 

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