Re: Paper on the ethical implications of Uplift
I note that the author makes a common mistake regarding such issues - assumption of commonality.
This is the assumption that a single decision will be reached by the whole of humanity on the ethical/moral decision under discussion. While interaction between discrete groups of humans is at an all time high, and poised to improve still further, history tells us that humanity will not reach such a consensus. Massively different cultures, as exist currently in different areas of Earth and seem unlikely to be changing anytime soon, will approach the question from entirely different directions and come to differing or even opposing conclusions.
Thus, my personal position is that, like transhuman technologies in general, application of uplift will not choose one line of development/acceptable practice and follow it, but that we will instead likely follow all of them - for both good and ill.