It’s … well, it’s Monday, but it used to be Saturday:
1. You’re a medical researcher competing for funding. You have many leads for an AIDS cure but can’t pursue them all. Do you give some to other researchers?
I’m not sure what the current bioethics rules say about this, but my inclination would be to keep the leads I think are most promising, and give out the rest. To do otherwise would seem unethical (and immoral).
2. You oppose a new law requiring registration of all guns. Do you register your gun?
Probably. My own thinking on the whole gun reg thing has gotten a bit more mixed over the past few years, but I don’t see my not registering my weapons if that became the law.
3. Technology will enable you to extend your life by 50 years. You must clone a second body for organ replacements. Do you do it?
Assuming I’m confident that it’s not a Sentient Copy floating around in the tank, sure, why not?
>3. Technology will enable you to extend your life by 50 years. You must clone a second body for organ replacements. Do you do it?
>Assuming I’m confident that it’s not a Sentient Copy floating around in the tank, sure, why not?
Okay, that was easy enough. But what if you could accelerate the maturation process of the clone, and control the level of sentience? Would you create a simple servant to do your bidding?
Or would you give it super-powers and use it as a minion in your new criminal empire? Mwa-hah-haaaahh!