10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

ju protivljenje ovakvim promjenama ljudi. Predstavnici »srednje struje«
smatraju da bi biokonzervativni stav, uz neprestan tehnološki rast, bio neodrživ,
jer jednom započeta istraživanja i njihovi efekti, kao što su poboljšanje
kvalitete i produžavanje života, teško mogu biti spriječeni, pogotovo
u razvijenim društvima tržišne privrede.
Imajući u vidu ova polazišta i govoreći jezikom sociološke imaginacije,
postavlja se pitanje: da li su razvijene zemlje spremne na promjenu
društveno-ekonomske i političke strukture ili je lakše postupno i progresivno
odobravati pojedinačne modifikacije uz kulturno suučesništvo? S tim u
vezi, pripadnici »srednje struje« ističu da izazov predstavlja istovremeno
praćenje patnje pojedinca i kritika i otpor sistemu koji tu patnju proizvodi.
HUMAN ENHANCEMENT AS A SOCIAL GOAL
Transhumanism justifies the use of the new enhancement technologies,
not just for the sake of treatment and disease control, but – more strongly
– for the sake of enhancing, improving human capacities and traits, and
transference from humanist to post-humanist society. Conversely, bioconservatives
express their opposition regarding these ways of changing human
beings. Representatives of the “middle approach”, on the other hand,
think that the constant growth of the technology renders the bioconservative
position untenable, because once the research is initiated in countries
of market economy, and once their effects, like the improvement of life
quality and greater life expectancy, are manifested; then it cannot be easily
obstructed.
Having in mind these standpoints, the language of sociological imagination
poses a following question: Are the developed countries ready to
change their socio-economic and political structures, or is it, in fact, easier
to gradually and progressively approve individual modification alongside
cultural complicity? Regarding these issues, spokesmen of the “middle
approach” point out that the challenge involves simultaneous observance
of individual suffering, as well as criticism and opposition to the system
that creates such suffering.
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