It’s the End of the World as We Know It and We Feel Fantastic: Examining the End of Suffering

Abstract

It’s the End of the World as We Know It and We Feel Fantastic: Examining the End of Suffering by Joelle Renstrom. This paper examines the consequences of the transhumanist goal to eliminate the suffering of all sentient beings. While transhumanists identify numerous approaches to this goal, the endgame is genetic modification of humans and natural predators. Pursuing this goal would cost trillions, and such treatments/technology would be available only to the wealthy. The transhumanist agenda around suffering is economically irresponsible, socially divisive, and inherently egotistical in its assumption that suffering is universally undesirable and meritless, and that scientists and the techno-elite have the right to modify sentient creatures.

Keywords

• transhumanism
• anthropocene
• genetic modification
• suffering
• humanism