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1. Which claim best characterizes Buchanan's position regarding possible new biomedical-
enhancement technologies:
A. We should try to eliminate their wide-spread use.
B. We should accept and encourage their development in the fastest time possible.
C. We should proceed cautiously but continue to be on the lookout for any possible harms they
might cause.
D. We should avoid forming opinions on their possible benefits and harms until they are actually
invented.
E. None of the above
2. Buchanan thinks that the goal of new enhancement technologies should be:
A. To create a super-human race.
B. To improve the reproductive fitness of individuals.
C. To control the population of human beings on earth.
D. To improve the quality of lives of individuals.
E. None of the above.
3. According to Buchanan, the main concern over biomedical enhancements coming in through
the back door is that:
A. They may be smuggled into the country.
B. They may be available only to a small minority of wealthy individuals who can afford them.
C. They may fail to receive the kind of study and attention that front-door enhancements would
receive.
D. They may undermine our human nature.
E. They might be corrupting of otherwise good people's characters by disposing them to illegal
activity.
4. According to the master engineer argument, genetic enhancements are morally wrong because:
A. We should not attempt to genetically enhance people until the scientific community attains the
status of a master engineer, metaphorically speaking.
B. They represent a drive for mastery.

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C. There will never be a master scientist or engineer who can guarantee the safety of genetic
enhancements.
D. Mastery is a vice, not a virtue, and enhancements aim at mastery.
E. Evolution is like a master engineer, so any genetic modification to ourselves will be for the worse.
5. By Pleistocene hangovers, Buchanan means:
A. Biological traits that we have today that are the result of selective pressures that existed
thousands of years ago but no longer today.
B. Biological traits that we have today but would not have had in the environment that existed
thousands of years ago.
C. Biological traits that are better in terms of quality of life to have today, even though the selective
pressures that allowed for those traits do not exist today.
D. Selective pressures toward perfection that feel like a hangover because perfection is impossible.
E. Selective pressures that exist today that tend to push human beings away from the pursuit of
perfection.
6. According to one anti-enhancement argument, genetic enhancements threaten to change human
nature and that is a serious moral concern because it is:
A. Unnecessary.
B. Unnatural.
C. Unfair.
D. Undermining of our genetic redundancy.
E. Underwhelming.
7. According to the extreme-connectedness principle:
A. It is an extreme position to think that human beings are strongly connected to each other.
B. It is an extreme position to think that human beings are not strongly connected to each other.
C. Given expected inequalities of access to biomedical enhancements, the social connectedness of
people will be put under extreme strain.
D. Various aspects of a human being are closely tied to one another.
E. Various aspects of a human being are not closely tied to one another.

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1. Which claim best characterizes Buchanan's position regarding possible new biomedicalenhancement technologies: A. We should try to eliminate their wide-spread use. B. We should accept and encourage their development in the fastest time possible. C. We should proceed cautiously but continue to be on the lookout for any possible harms they might cause. D. We should avoid forming opinions on their possible benefits and harms until they are actually invented. E. None of the above 2. Buchanan thinks that the goal of new enhancement technologies should be: A. To create a super-human race. B. To improve the reproductive fitness of individuals. C. To control the population of human beings on earth. D. To improve the quality of lives of individuals. E. None of the above. 3. According to Buchanan, the main concern over biomedical enhancements coming in through the back door is that: A. They may be smuggled into the country. B. They may be available only to a small minority of wealthy individuals who can afford them. C. They may fail to receive the kind of study and attention that front-door enhancements would receive. D. They may undermine our human nature. E. They might be corrupting of otherwise good people's characters by disposing them to illegal activity. 4. According to the master engineer argument, genetic enhancements are morally wrong because: A. We should not attempt to genetically enhance people until the scientific community attains the status of a master engineer, metaph ...
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