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David Pearce - Politics & Abolition From Suffering

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Adam Ford records IEET Fellow, David Pearce on the topic of “Politics & Abolition From Suffering.” David Pearce believes that libertarian-socialist ideals (a needed term because American Libertarians have hijacked the original definition of “libertarian”) will probably lead the way to the freedom for parents to choose their children’s genes, and for society to abolish any need or want for factory farms, condemning them as one of the cruelest institutions to have ever existed. http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pearce20140922z

David Pearce (born 3 April) is a British philosopher. He promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience among human and non-human animals, replacing suffering with gradients of well-being, a project he refers to as "paradise engineering".

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