Is it a sin to install Borg technology?

[Jack_Bauer]

Playing on Joesph Kemp’s threads, I thought I’d expand it to include something interesting to me.

I’d like to know if it would be morally wrong to have borg implants installed for increasing the capacity of the brain to process information and expand memory?

 

[cemiller]

I don’t like the borg, but 1 part strength, 2 parts speed, and a dash of hearing enhancement would be a recipe for AWESOME!

 

[po18guy]

My only problem is with the purpose of borgism in the first place. Mankind conceives of error at light speed now…

 

[GEddie]

Playing on Joesph Kemp’s threads, I thought I’d expand it to include something interesting to me.

I’d like to know if it would be morally wrong to have borg implants installed for increasing the capacity of the brain to process information and expand memory?

That, in itself would not be wrong, unless you were using it to artificially store information for, say, academic cheating.

It might, however, be unwise. A power surge could erase your human mind.

ICXC NIKA

 

[GEddie]

Wasn’t Borg technology primarily to create a group-mind?
If so, that would violate the human person, in the Catholic sense.

ICXC NIKA

 

[Jack_Bauer]

Well, I’m talking about the state that 7 of 9 was left in after reversing her implants. They couldn’t remove all of them. But if it increased cerebral ability to help mankind, would it still be wrong.

Personally, I’m sure in the eyes of God it’s wrong. It’s just an interesting question. In a sense, scientists/doctors are already attempting such things. What’s the difference between helping someone, say, disabled compared to increasing someone’s abilities assuming to help mankind - medical doctors for example. Today, computers help otherwise isolated people in their own minds, able to visually connect to people through a computer interface. What’s really the difference?