What is the ethical way to intervene in a country that is endangering people significantly enough to justify collective action by other countries, abridging the first nation’s sovereignty?
Is it right for governments or the public to intervene in the scientific process when, on the one hand, unimpeded science has such great promise but on the other, unintended deleterious consequences are a plausible result of the research?
Do people and organizations have a right to pollute if they can pay for it; e.g., by paying carbon taxes, pollution fines, carbon trading, etc.?
Should religious or scientific views prevail in embryonic stem cell research?
Should codes of ethics be created and enforced by an international agency to guide the behavior of international corporations?
Should national sovereignty and cultural differences be allowed to prevent international intervention designed to stop widespread male violence to women?
Do we have a right to clone ourselves?
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Does society have a right to clone animals?
Should religions give up the claim of certainty and/or superiority to reduce religion-related conflicts?
Does the possible use of future weapons (like dirty bombs or biological weapons) by an individual or group justify governments to ignore the rights of those individuals and groups, and those of innocent others who might be related in some way, to prevent the anticipated action?
What is the ethical way to intervene into any educational system that teaches hate and violence
Should there be two standards for athletic, musical, and other forms of competition: one for the un-augmented and another for those whose performance has been enhanced by drugs, bionics, genetic engineering, and/or nanobots?
Should information pollution (as environmental pollution is now) become a crime?
Is it ethical for society to recreate extinct species?
With a vastly more interconnected world, when ideas, people, and resources can clearly come together to solve a problem or achieve an opportunity, is it unethical to do nothing to connect them, when it is clearly in one’s power to do so?
In this time period it is possible for an individual to become or initiate a weapon of mass destruction. Is it right to integrate the systems of education, security, and mental health to prevent young people from growing up into deranged adults who may be capable of using weapons of mass destruction in the future?
Is it right to computer augment or genetically enhance our pets and other animals’ brains?
