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Mar
2004
Anti-Aging in the News
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The identity clinic Carl Elliott argues that happiness has become the goal of medicine - and it will make us miserable

The Red-Green Divide Over Human Enhancement Over the coming decades both demographic and technological trends will turn America's current red-blue divide into a red-green divide -- "red" for those religious Hispanic, blacks and evangelical whites who will want to stop human enhancement, and "green" for those more secular Hispanics, blacks and whites who will want to go forward with it.

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That identity clinic article is the sort of bioethics that really makes me grind my teeth, I have to say. A good antidote to that sort of thinking is a perusal of the Hedonistic Imperative:

http://www.hedweb.com/

There are some fascinating and well-formed arguments associated with that branch of transhumanism. I can't say that I agree with all of them, but it should be required reading for everyone currently in the "suffering is natural and thus good" camp.

Posted by: Reason at March 31, 2004 1:59 PM
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