Gaz presents Kit Ramsey with an… interesting… question.

Let’s just say that technology can add new dimensions to existing moral dilemmas, and introduce completely new moral questions.

Topics discussed include:

• Synthetic/cultured meat and milk
• The “ick” factor relating to synthetic/cultured meat seems to be reducing (anecdotally, according to Gaz)
• Will we get to a point where it’s ethically questionable to eat vegetables? (They’re alive too…)
• Responses to unusual questions can vary depending on the social context
• Self-driving cars and the trolley problem
• Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom (empathy is “parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate”)
• Politics and the failure of empathy (or “being out of touch”) and the problem of having policies with statistical benefits and real losers
• Could 80% of milk consumption be synthetic within 30 years? If so, what are the possible economic and political outcomes?
• Bonus discussion about how technology introduces a new dimension to sexual ethics and relationship agreements.

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