bioconservative

comparative more bioconservative · superlative most bioconservative

1. Characterized by bioconservatism.

   So what's all that got to do with transhumanism, and why do I think that transhumanists are actually more bioconservative than their opponents?

   2014, M. Hauskeller, Sex and the Posthuman Condition

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   I will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.

   2016, Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy, page 48

   We can emphasize the idea that enhancement need not undermine bioconservative values by imagining a type of enhancement that promotes these values.

   2016, Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C. A. J. Coady, The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate

plural bioconservatives

1. A proponent of bioconservatism.

   Among the technologies bioconservatives frequently deride are genetic modification of both plants and animals, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, all forms of cloning and radical life extension.

   2011, Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies, page 195

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   The best way to protect the disadvantaged from the inequalities that bioconservatives like McKibben believe will follow from enhancement is not te prevent enhancement, but to ensure that the social institutions we use to distribute enhancement technologies work to protect the least well off and to provide everyone with a fair go.

   2012, Peter Healey, Steve Rayner, Unnatural Selection, page 186

   In contrast, a bioconservative might stipulate the definition of an existential risk as “one that either (a) threatens the extinction of Homo sapiens—that is, through total annihilation or the creation of a replacement posthuman population—or (b) causes a permanent and drastic reduction in our quality of life."

   2017, Phil Torres, Martin Rees, Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing