Why is it possible to enhance moral status and why doing so is wrong?
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Why is it possible to enhance moral status and why doing so is wrong?
This paper presents arguments for two claims. First, post-persons, beings with a moral status superior to that of mere persons, are possible. Second, it would be bad to create such beings. Actions that risk bringing them into existence should be avoided. According to Allen Buchanan, it is possible to enhance moral status up to the level of personhood. But attempts to improve status beyond that ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0306-6800,1473-4257
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2012-100597