Should animals be forcibly 'upgraded'? An ethics debate over directed evolution
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-21
A debate over genetically modifying animals: one side objects that animals never consented to their offspring being forcibly "evolved"; the other counters that animals have no say either way, "we can do better than the random dartboard of an uncaring universe."
The rejoinder: would aliens be justified in modifying human children so they couldn't drive (given crash-related suffering)? Maybe fix humans first — a posthuman/alignment-adjacent ethics exchange.
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