The Refugees and our Duties

How cognitive enhancement can change our duties

This theoretical paper draws the scientific community's attention to how pharmacological cognitive enhancement may impact on society and law. Namely, if safe, reliable, and effective techniques to enhance mental performance are eventually developed, then this may under some circumstances impose new duties onto people in high-responsibility professions-e.g., surgeons or pilots-to use such substa...

Syrian refugees desperately need our help.

Transhumanism, Our Pluralist Moral Duties to the Poor and How to Effectively Address Global Poverty

Prominent transhumanists Julian Savulescu, Ingmar Persson, and Thomas Douglas argue that moral enhancement could solve global poverty. They argue that by engineering individuals with better moral dispositions, they will have better motives, and therefore the will to act more morally. These morally enhanced individuals will more effectively discharge their duties regarding global poverty, thus l...

The cost of cancer care--balancing our duties to patients versus society: are they mutually exclusive?

Global refugees and the long road: their hope and our role!