Biomedical Moral Enhancement:Reflections on Practical Feasibility and Technological Desirability
Advances in biomedical technologies offer the potential to intervene in human morality,but this potential is highly controversial due to the ethical implications of using technological means to change human moral behavior.It argues that current scholarly objections concerning character formation,free will,and moral reasoning at the desirability level do not necessarily provide strong counterarguments against biomedical moral enhancement.On the practical feasibility front,the development of biomedical moral enhancement aimed at improving individual morality and solving virtue-related social problems may not be worth advocating.Uncertainty about the safety,efficacy and value proposition of the technology,as well as the paradox of free will under a socially beneficial"engineering"approach to moral enhancement,present significant ethical challenges.
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