Description: ACKNOWLEDGING an individual’s right to do with his or her own body what they will, as long as it doesn’t violate another’s rights;
UNDERSTANDING that with today’s growing technology, people have the ability to modify themselves for aesthetic, health-related, and performance-enhancing purposes;
FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGING these technologies have the potential to affect the human race for the better, if utilized with care;
Definitions:
TRANSHUMANISM is hereby defined as an field of study relating to the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities
INDIVIDUALS (as used in this resolution) are hereby defined as citizens that have reached the age of majority and are regarded as mentally competent in their nation.
TRANSHUMAN INDIVIDUALS are hereby defined as individuals that have chosen to use science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities, as was defined above.
MODIFICATION(as used in this resolution) is hereby defined as any and all of the following:
•Gene manipulation (extraction of an individual’s genes, injection of genes, gene splicing)
•Artificial limbs implemented in an individual
•Laboratory grown organs or appendages implemented in an individual
•RFID chips/any other type of chip that can be inserted under the skin (excluding wood chips) implemented in an individual
•Implementation of nanobots in an individual
•Any mechanical/tech device that has become a permanent part of the individual (Ex: HUD overlay on retina)
The WA hereby decrees:
•No nation shall pass alaw prohibiting the implementation of a modification in an individual that has given informed consent to have it implemented;
•Transhuman individuals will be treated as equals, with the same rights and laws applying to them as to any other human being
•Modification of any individual without their informed consent is hereby prohibited and recognized as criminal;
•In addition, the World Assembly hereby founds BRETH (Bureau for the Research and Ethics of Transhumanism)
•Modification of any human beings that do not fall under the definition of an individual as defined above will require the informed consent of an advocate, and will be deemed criminal if decided by BRETH to be cruel or harmful to the human being in question.
BRETH’s purpose is to discuss the ethics of the various fields of transhumanist technologies; and to discuss future applications of technology in the realm of transhumanism.
BRETH hereby has the power to decide whether a modification is cruel or harmful to a human being not falling under the definition of an individual, thus making it criminal.
Discuss.
