Forget the debate about utilitarian ethics, deontological ethics, or virtue ethics, we are losing moral agency in our growing collective inability to predict consequences of complex systems, for instance in the much heralded genomic revolution. Nor will the precautionary principle work, as the opportunity costs of doing nothing could themselves be profound. As individual persons, we can still productively talk about individual ethical behavior and duties, but in the increasingly important distributed space of 21st century technoculture, we just don't have the foggiest idea what is around the bend. I'm inclined to think that both fear and hope are swindlers, but I could be wrong. Meta is an edited and moderated listserver and news service dedicated to promoting the constructive engagement of science and religion.
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