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| Is it morally problimatic to have implicit biases? |
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| If biases have unfair or harmful consequences they are morally wrong. |
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| What is Kelly and Roeddert's view on the issue? |
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These implicit biases can be bad and that having these attitudes can be reprehensable.
BUT before you look at rationality and morality you must first look to understand why we think these biases are right or wrong. |
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| What evidence to support their oppinion do Kelly and Roeddert use? |
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- Disapprove of person having explicit racist thoughts even if they do not act on them
- Non-racial attitudes are wrong independently of their actions (pedophilia)
- Racial mental states are morally problematic
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| What is the minimal understanding of implict biases? |
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Definition
| Tendency to associate one concept with another |
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| Why are explicit racial attitudes morally problematic? |
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- Racism is a deformation and opposes benevolence and justice (meaning) the disposition to do good and the equality of people is undermined
- It is stereotypical which is direspectful and fails to appreciate one's humanity
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| Can certain non-racist attitudes be morally problematic even if they have no harmful consequences? |
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| Yes, because if we look at it in a different example, ie pedophile thoughts, as a society we think that those are wrong and immoral even if they are not acted on and lead to no harmful consequences |
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| The what extent are implicit biases rational? |
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| If looking at the most minimal state, it can be rational in the sense that there are correlations and staistical regularity |
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| What does pornography do according to MacKinnon? |
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Definition
- Sexualizes rape, battery, sexual harassment, and child abuse
- Eroticises dominence and submission
- Coonducts that women are what men want for sex
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| Why is pornography harmful? |
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Definition
| It institutionalizes the sexuality of male supremacy and eroticises the thought of male dominence and femail submission |
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| To whom is pornography harmful? |
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| How does pornography portray women? |
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| Silences them and portrays them as submissive under male dominance |
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| Are biomedical enhancements natural? |
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| No - natural happens only on its own |
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| Does the use of biomedical enhancements oppose human nature? |
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| Yes - it tampers with what evolution and our bodies should do naturally on their own and what nature has planned for us |
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Something that accords with how we are set in nature
Nature is biology |
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| What four common assumptions does Buchanan mention about biomedical enhancements |
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- They are both personal good, only good for the individual, and zero-sum good, "my good comes at your expense"
- They will become a marketed good - produced only for profit and no longer solely as an aid
- They will become very expensive
- The government will have no stake in the diffusion
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| Do you agree that these assumptions should be rejected? |
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Yes because -
1. They are not personal or zero-sum goods; we benefit from what others do
2. Enhancements increase productivity
3. The government will in fact be interested
4. They will not always be so expensive; everything, ie cell phones, goes down eventually after an initial production |
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