In Our Posthuman Future Fukiyama argues for the creation of national and international regulating bodies that can intervene and prevent certain research in human biotechnology. These technologies assault the basis of human rights by modifying and threatening to harm human dignity. Reason, language, moral choice, and emotions combine in humans to produce politics, art, and religion.
Fukuyama would have the regulatory institutions draw a line between therapy and enhancement,
I stumbled across this entertaining spoof of WMD emergency graphics at Moxie via Utter Wonder via Zulkey.
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