Driving
Good guess. Platooning is a good thing.
What are the things regarded as normal today that will be trashed in the future?
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Is it not possible that in the future, people will discover what is essentially an impossibility theorem for morality? Maybe there is no consistent and complete moral code and some sort of moral relativism has to be accepted as society simply shifts priorities and dispenses with the morals that seem least essential.
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Is it not possible that in the future, people will discover what is essentially an impossibility theorem for morality? Maybe there is no consistent and complete moral code and some sort of moral relativism has to be accepted as society simply shifts priorities and dispenses with the morals that seem least essential.
Seek help.
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I do wonder about abortion. Most people have mushy, complicated views about abortion, but viability outside the womb is an important anchor. As medical technology improves viability moves earlier and earlier.
How many people would be ok with terminating a pregnancy when an alternative procedure could remove it from the womb and allow it to grow to term?I never understood the argument that viability had anything to do with eliminating the stricture against murder.
Very few of us would be "viable" without outside assistance--even to eat--and many of us rely directly on drugs or medical procedures to live.
Yet, we don't say that it is ok to k!11 someone who needs medical assistance to live.
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This is an interesting point though.
Embryos can already develop in vitro for a while, and this is getting longer and longer. At the same time, support for very early pre term birth is getting earlier all the time. This will eventually cross over. At that point it will be possible to have a baby grow entirely in a tank, from conception to birth. This will be so obviously safer and more controlled than natural gestation that - at least for the rich - traditional pregnancy will become a second best/"natural"/hippie option.
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This is an interesting point though.
Embryos can already develop in vitro for a while, and this is getting longer and longer. At the same time, support for very early pre term birth is getting earlier all the time. This will eventually cross over. At that point it will be possible to have a baby grow entirely in a tank, from conception to birth. This will be so obviously safer and more controlled than natural gestation that - at least for the rich - traditional pregnancy will become a second best/"natural"/hippie option.Brave new world
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Abortion
LGBTQ militancy
Feminism
Libertarianism
Public healthI do wonder about abortion. Most people have mushy, complicated views about abortion, but viability outside the womb is an important anchor. As medical technology improves viability moves earlier and earlier.
How many people would be ok with terminating a pregnancy when an alternative procedure could remove it from the womb and allow it to grow to term?I would. The fetus does not suffer from termination. And a fetus is not difficult to make. By your logic, not having children is murder, too. It's untenable. Let adults make reproductive decisions, please, not fetuses (which have a will to live an grow, like any life form including a severed human skin cell)