Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 06:59:51 -0400
From: Brad4d6-AT-aol.com
Subject: Re: hammers and cyborgs


hopkins-AT-twinearth.wustl.edu (Patrick Hopkins) asks:

>Isn't is possible that thinking ethics through the body could rationally 
>lead to the conclusion that, given the right technology, the most morally
>and practically effective action would be to change the constraints of the 
>human body to decrease starvation and disease?

I have had the following fantasy: Medical science will come up with
increasingly sophisticated anti-cancer drugs.  This will permit polluters to
stop trying to limit toxic substance contamination of the environment,
because --> everybody will get all sorts of cancers from the pollutants, but
they will also be on constant chemotherapy so that the cancers don't kill
them.  Our bodies will be full of lumps and we'll all have permanent
chemotherapy hookups implanted.  Business will be freed of the costs of
environmental cleanup measures.  And the bio-tech industry will make a lot of
money treating all the cancers.

Brad McCormick


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