addiction
There are those, in the field of biotechnological and medical ethics, who class anagathics as dangerous and addictive, inasmuch as ceasing to take your life-extension drugs results in a plethora of aging-related side-effects, followed by death. The absurdity of this position and the farcical nature of its enforcement naturally ensure
mélith
Not an actual trope-a-day, but something I thought I’d write down after the latest xkcd reminded me of the existence of the book, The Giving Tree. Just in case I forgot it by the time I’m actually tackling Values Dissonance, belike. Which in our culture may well be
seed AI
The ultimate test of a civilization’s ethics and morality is to program them into a recursively self-improving AI seed, fire it up, and still exist a year later. We strongly recommend not attempting to pass it.