Today’s discussion begins with a maverick rival to the Olympics – The Enhanced Games – which will allow all its athletes to use whatever drugs or technology they want to try and boost their performance. It’s garnered a lot of support and investment from both Donald Trump-adjacent right-wing political forces and techno-optimistic libertarian folk in Silicon Valley. The games themselves will act as a testbed for various kinds of biohacking, which wealthy elites hope may one day help them live forever. Human enhancement is close to moving from science fiction to reality, but should we be worried? Would you take a pill which could make you run faster, work harder or think smarter? Is there really any difference between using science and tech to make us healthier, and using similar science and tech to make us better than healthy? How might our Christian convictions around the Creator’s intentions or the incarnation of Jesus address these ethical dilemmas?
The Bloomberg article on the Enhanced Games which partly inspired our discussion – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-27/the-enhanced-games-aims-to-be-an-olympics-where-doping-is-the-point
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