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- Animal Rights
- Is Bentham's Criterion of Sentience a suffient criterion for "equal consideration"?
- What is the scope of Regan's "right to a life"?
- Should the Animal Welfare act be amended to include poultry and other animals that it currently excludes?
- Should the Animal Welfare act be amended to impose stricter regulations on the use of animals in experiments and research, as well as on factory farms?
- Assuming the argument from environmental waste is sound, what are its public policy implications?
- Assuming the argument from environmental pollution is sound, what are its public policy implications?
- Should xenotransplantion be banned?
- Gen-Ethics
- Who should have access to genetic information?
- Should genetic interventions be considered in the domain of justice?
- How should the goverment regulate the use of genetic interventions among humans? Animals?
- Should human cloning be banned?
- Is it morally wrong to abort a fetus simply because it has a risk of acquiring a disability?
- Should the goverment subsidize stem cell research?
- Should genes be patented?
- Should the use of GMOs in the nation's food supply be more strictly regulated?
- Cyber-Ethics
- Should Napster be allowed to exist without government interference?
- Should computer programs be owned?
- Should the government regulate the content of the internet?
- Who is responsible when a an expert system commits an fatal act?
- Is AI morality possible?
- Do robots have rights?
- Trans-Unit
- A comparison between robot rights and animal rights
- Sanctity of life: From Human Embryos to Non-Human Animals
- Genes and programs: intellectual property rights in the 21st century
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