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Homework answers / question archive / University of Ontario Institute of Technology COMM 1050U UNIT 6: DISTANT VISIONS Q1: According to Ronald Bailey, people who do not want enhancements should do this: a      Shout embarrassingly with food in one's mouth

University of Ontario Institute of Technology COMM 1050U UNIT 6: DISTANT VISIONS Q1: According to Ronald Bailey, people who do not want enhancements should do this: a      Shout embarrassingly with food in one's mouth

Communications

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

COMM 1050U

UNIT 6: DISTANT VISIONS

Q1: According to Ronald Bailey, people who do not want enhancements should do this:

a      Shout embarrassingly with food in one's mouth.

a      Get out of the way

  1. Write a firmly-worded letter to their local congressperson
  2. Continue to voice their concerns about the ethical implications of biotechnologies c        Get on with their lives

 

Q2: According to Leon Kass, what is the main problem with making the bioethical distinction between 'enhancement' and 'therapy'?

a      Sick people deserve therapy while rich people do not deserve enhancements just because they have wallets

a      One person's enhancement is another person's therapy so the distinction is problematic

a      Enhancement is for unhappy people while therapy will be for sick people b        All of these answers

c      None of these answers

 

Q3: According to Amber Case, we are all cyborgs now for this reason (among others):

a      We are all connected to the hive mind b  We all have cell phones

a      Our technologies have become mental extensions of ourselves.

a      We are all afraid of being alone

 

b            All of these answers

 

Q4: According to Juan Enriquez, this is the name of the new species of human that is emerging as a result of our new technologies

a      Homo technologicus b        'Technological man' a        Homo evolutis

  1. Answers 1 and 2
  2. None of these answers

 

Q5: According to Ronald Bailey, critics of emerging biotechnology are short-sighted because they fail to recognize this:

  1. The enhancements will make people cry loudly and messily at sappy movies

 

  1. The enhancements will make people more amenable to obeying the law

 

c      The enhancements will make people less difficult to deal with

a      The enhancements will allow people more opportunities to flourish

 

Q6: According to the Transhumanist Declaration, transhumanists believe this:

  1. Although all progress is change, not all change is progress
  2. We must consider our moral responsibilities towards generations that will exist in the future

c      Policy making ought to respect human autonomy

d     Humanity faces serious risks, particularly from the misuse of new technologies

a      All of these answers

 

Q7: According to Leon Kass, one of the major objections to biotechnology is dubious ends, for this reason:

  1. Attitude and mastery
  2. Technology allows us to reach to far
  3. Often our limits, such as death, make us afraid
  4. Technology does not allow us to reach far enough

a      Often our limits, such as death, help to define us

 

Q8: According to Leon Kass, there are three problematic objections in biotechnology, of which this is one:

a      Health concerns

  1. Dubious ends
  2. Attitude of mastery c       

d     None of these answers

 

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