Question 1

What Is Citizenship?

Answer

Citizenship is personhood, meaning: all self aware beings with desires and plans for the future, should be considered citizens with the right to life. vs Conservatives: Religious Human-Racism - "Humanness" determines citizenship. vs Liberals: Limited Human-Racism: "humanness" determines citizenship, but not for embryos. vs Libertarians: All self aware beings with desires and plans for the future, should be considered citizens with the right to life.

Question 2

How to engage Employment?

Answer

Embrace the end of labor: the wealth and leisure created by automation should be shared equitably by all through a basic income guarantee, shorter work week, and new types of work. vs Conservatives:
Eco Luddism "Small Is Beautiful": Stop automation and adopt voluntary simplicity. vs Liberals:
Protectionism, luddism, public employment: attempt to protect existing jobs, and create new ones. vs Libertarians:
If the government avoids meddling (unemployment, insurance, minimum wages, etc) all workers will find new jobs, even if at lower wages.

Question 3

How to think about Globalization?

Answer

Economic globalization must be accompanied by political globalization: globalization is good as long as it is accompanied by workers rights and protections, environmental laws, and global democratic governance of capital flows. vs Conservatives:
Eco Luddite: Globalization should be stopped and we should return to self-reliance and political sovereignty. Religious Global Bans on enhancement tech but no other global governance. vs Liberals:
Globalization is good as long as it is accompanied by workers rights and protections, environmental laws, and global democratic governance of capital flows. vs Libertarians:
Economic globalization is good: Global governance, worker protections, and environmental laws are all unnecessary.

Question 4

How to support the Ecology?

Answer

Technogaian: A combination of judicious regulation and ecologically oriented technologies can prevent and remediate ecological damage. Openness to the cautious use of geo-engineering as a partial mitigation of climate change is an example of a technogaian approach. vs Conservatives:
Deep Ecology: Humanity should radically restrict itself. Religious Dominion Theology: Man has stewardship over Nature. vs Liberals:
Left Ecology: technologies developed by patriarchal, capitalist systems need to be banned and those system changed. vs Libertarians:
Free Markets: the market can solve all ecological problems.

Question 5

How to engage Reproductive Rights?

Answer

Procreative Liberty, Equality and Beneficence: Trust parents to act in children's best interest, stop them if they don't, give them equal access to germinal choice technology, and encourage them to create children with the best life opportunities. vs Conservatives:
Procreative Liberty Trumped by Religious Rights: Reproductive rights trumped by religious prohibitions or the need for radical population reduction. vs Liberals:
Limited Procreative Liberty: Reproductive rights, but not extended to germinal choice and reproductive technology. vs Libertarians:
Procreative Liberty: Trust parents to act in children's best interests, and let them buy germinal choice in the market.

Question 6

How to engage Technological Enhancement?

Answer

Make Enhancements Universally Accessible: Democracies should work toward social equality, and provide universal access to enhancement technologies. vs Conservatives:
Tech bans Necessary to Protect Equality: Equality can be guaranteed by banning enhancement technologies. vs Liberals:
Bans on technologies as Part of Larger Egalitarian Program: Democracies should work toward social equality and ban enhancement technologies. vs Libertarian:
Market Access and Legal Equality is Enough: If legal equality is guaranteed and enhancement technological are available in the market, social equality is irrelevant and government should do nothing to create a more equal society.

Question 7

Individual Liberty vs Restrictions

Answer

Individual Liberty overrides "yuck factor". You can't legally "yuck" my "yum". vs Conservatives:
Yuck Factor: overrides individual liberty. vs Liberals:
Yuck Factor: overrides individual liberty in germinal choice and biotech, but not in sexuality or abortion vs Libertarians:
WE AGREE Individual Liberty overrides "yuck factor".

Question 8

Humanism vs Religious Rights

Answer

Humanism: Human beings are free to determine their own future, guided by prudent reason. There are no obvious natural or divine limits on human aspiration. vs Conservatives:
Deep Ecology / Hubris Taboo: Humanity should be restricted by divine or ecological taboos. vs Liberals:
Opposition to Patriarchal or Imperialist Humanism vs Libertarians:
WE AGREE Human beings are free to determine their own future, guided by prudent reason. There are no obvious natural or divine limits on human aspiration.

Question 9

How to consider Technological Risks?

Answer

Regulation: risks are manageable with the assistance of democratic oversight and management. vs Conservatives:
Relinquishment: Risks are so enormous and unknowable, and regulatory institutions so flawed, that human enhancement should be banned. vs Liberals:
Relinquishment: Risks are so enormous and unknowable, and regulatory institutions so flawed, that human enhancement should be banned. vs Libertarians:
Resignation: technology is uncontrollable, government intervention always has bad unforeseen consequences, and risks are manageable without government.

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