Are Ethics Immutable?

Admit it! 70 years ago, an exhibit like Body Worlds would have never existed. Even today, huge amount of people criticizes the idea as being unethical, against their tradition/religion, or plainly disgusting.

Here’s a good quote:

“Ethics is about making behavioral choices. Some choices are better than others. Each human action starts a chain of reactions and sometimes overreactions that can affect other people long after the initial action is initiated. Bad choices can lead to overreactions that spiral out of control. Counterproductive choices become the inspiration of new rules of conduct. New rules evolve to minimize pain, suffering and death and to maximize peace prosperity and productivity. The never ending progression of rule making in human societies can be described mathematically. In the book (The Evolution of Ethics), the evolution of traffic laws is given as an example of an evolving rule system based on maximizing human survival and prosperity.”

Bromberg, S. (1999) The Evolution of Ethics: An Introduction to Cybernetic Ethics, Dianic Publications; Rev. ed edition, p. 122.

Now, when will human-animal hybrid embryo production or cloning be considered good due to their maximizing potential for human survival and prosperity? A decade? maybe 2? who’d like to bet? Will that be the next wave of shocking exhibitions?