Transhumanism is a Fundamentally Good Idea

Thank you for the reply.I: Biological LimitationsThe difference between Pro's proposed technology and current technology is potential. Current technology can be abused, but not to the same degree as Tran-humanization. Such a technology would have far greater negative impact on war than the Atomic Bomb and Nuclear Power North Korea abuses. Technology mustn't be explored when the potential for harm is too great.North Korea may be misusing the Nuclear Power they have, but such power can be dealt with. It is near to impossible to stop other nations like North Korea from misusing civilian Trans-Humanization. It's not just having Trans-Human armies, but also attacking Trans-Human citizens. We already can't prevent China, North Korea, and even Iran from hacking Government property(1,2,3,4,5,6,) better yet stop them from hacking Citizens property.It's places like North Korea who would really misuse this power. A nuclear bomb would become a Quarter next the the Dollar that would be a computer virus from China. Although our own military abusing the power would still be an issue. The potential for misuse must always be considered. Some are worth the potential, some aren't. Trans-Humanization simply is not worth the bad.[1] http://tinyurl.com...[2] http://tinyurl.com...[3] http://tinyurl.com...[4] http://tinyurl.com...[5] http://tinyurl.com...[6] http://tinyurl.com...II: Standard of LifeThe idea that Trans-Humanization being affordable is, at most, wishful thinking. Trans-Humanization could, at most, become affordable in partial operations to the US/EU middle class. 80% of Earth will still not be able to afford this (prior source in R2). While this claim doesn't demote Trans-Humanization, as all technology ultimately works that way, it wasn't intended to. It was intended to refute your claim that is would solved poverty and other issues in places like Africa. Moore's Law is nice, but has closed to no effect in Africa. After 100 years, we can get a 500 gigabyte Laptop with 6 gigs of memory for only $398.00 (7), when 1 gigabyte by itself used to cost $189,000 just 33 years ago(8), and still only 15.6% of Africa can afford to own a computer (based off internet usage).(8) While Internet Usage has increased a lot in Africa, this isn't because Africans are getting richer. The number has skyrocketed only because of more modern nations like Egypt, Libya, and South Africa buying Computers, while the majority of African nations still can not afford clean water.Another issue with Trans-humanization would be glitches. Even after a hundred years, computers regularly experience glitching. Even the $1.5 billion(9) Curiosity Mars Rover experienced major glitching.(10)Pro has Dropped the following of my Arguments:-Raising Healthcare Costs-Removal of the ideal of Human Equality-Tran-Human Virus-Battery life[7] http://tinyurl.com...[8] http://tinyurl.com...[9] http://tinyurl.com...[10] http://tinyurl.com...III: A Cure for the Human ConditionPro has made the gross claim that evil and free will does not exist. Such an accusation demands BOP. Pro should understand that he is changing the Status Quo with such an accusation, it is not me whom must prove that Free Will exists, but him who must back up his absurd claim that it doesn't.The first sign of Free Will is to be-able to question if one has Free Will. If Free Will did not exist, than debating would be a waste of time. Although I agree on skipping such an extensive topic. If Free Will did, for the sake of argument, not exist, Pro's argument still violates the philosophical concept supported by the Declaration of Independence and UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Claiming that Free Will and Evil doesn't exist as a flash argument is the equivalent of a debate Deus ex machina. Evil: Adjective1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.2. harmful; injurious: (11)1. morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked 2. arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct 3. causing harm (12)1. Morally bad or wrong; wicked: an evil tyrant.2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful: the evil effects of a poor diet.3. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous: evil omens.4. Bad or blameworthy by report (13)1. profoundly immoral and malevolent: (Oxford Dictionary 14)We know Evil exists because the idea of Conduct and Morality exists. Even if only subjective, Morality exists, and therefore Immorality exists, even if only subjectively. The Status Quo views the removal of one's Free Will, or ignoring of the philosophical concept of Free Will to be immoral, and therefore evil.Another indicator of Evil is the ability to do harm and be harmed. As seen in the following definitions:2. harmful; injurious: 3. causing harm2. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful:Because the definitions are real, the concept in which they define must also be real. If Evil is defined has causing harm, and causing harm is real, than Evil most also be real.The Government would still use Argumantation to enslave the populace. Pro has ignored this point. Such power is, in and of itself, a prime example of my Argument 1 logic... "The potential for misuse must always be considered. Some are worth the potential, some aren't. Trans-Humanization simply is not worth the bad." You would basically hand the Government absolute control over it's people without question.[11] http://tinyurl.com...[12] http://tinyurl.com...[13] http://tinyurl.com...[14] http://tinyurl.com...IV: CostsIf we remove the rest of Trans-Humanization from the equation, and focus on simply the Hard drive needed to store the capacity of the Human Brain."Yet neurons combine so that each one helps with many memories at a time, exponentially increasing the brain’s memory storage capacity to something closer to around 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes)." - Scientific American(15)2.5 Petabytes = 2500 Terabytes 2500 Terabytes = 2,500,000 Gigabytes(16)At a current cost of $0.07(17), the cost of a Hard Drive able to store our brain would be around $175,000.Processing is another story. The K-Computer attempted to process 1 second of Brain Activity. It burned through an entire Petabyte of system memory... And took 40 minutes.(18) This is the equivalent of using 1024 terabytes... or 1,048,576 gigabytes... To process one second of Brain Processing, and it still requiring 40 minutes to do. This in an age when 4 gigabytes of memory can sill cost you $44(19). By that cost ($11 per gigabyte), it'd be $10,485,760 for a processor that still takes 40 minutes to process what your brain processes in a second.[15] http://tinyurl.com...[16] http://www.whatsabyte.com...[17] http://tinyurl.com...[18] http://tinyurl.com...[19] http://tinyurl.com...V: Glitches and Lost DataGlitches are rampant in modern software, and only increase with hardware complexity. The human program would be plagued by man-made virus's and programming glitches that could cause numerous issues. The glitches could be considered similar to birth defects, but worse. Some could crash the person, cause a complete reset his whole data bank (imagine being a happy father in a good house one moment, then being a baby again, but with an adult body.)Another issue is similar to the above issue, data loss. Get next to a magnet or electronic field, and you could lose great amounts of memory, or worse, BIOS. VI: AgingFor up to 20 years of aging, we are growing. The average United States adult is around 5’ 9.4" after 20 years,(20) an increase of 4' 2.3" compared to the average height of 1' 7.1" for a new born.(21)The greatest inconvenience most parents admit to when raising a growing child or teenager is buying new cloths. With Tran-Humanization, you'd be outgrowing and replacing entire body parts. Aging would present a large problem. Prior mentioned Durability from my Round 3 argument along with outgrowing and replacing parts that do not grow with you, presents a massive problem, albeit mostly financial, for anyone partaking in Trans-Humanization. The Financial aspect is important, most people will not be able to afford the replacements, especially for larger families or twins. Most wouldn't beable to afford it for one child, like buying a new super computer for your child every year (sometimes, twice a year) for nearly 15-20 years.[20] http://tinyurl.com...[21] http://tinyurl.com...Pro has dropped the following of my Arguments:- IV: Durability- V: OverpopulationTwo major problems with Tran-Humanization. These matched with the major issues dropped during Argument II: Standard of Life, produce a critical hole in Pro's Resolution.Conclusion:The benefits of Trans-humanization are outweighed by the harm it would do, and the potential (and in many cases, obvious) threats it poses to humans and all of humanity.