Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The second view is that virtually all enhancements are acceptable...

what is required of us is to use genetic interventions to produce the best possible people that can be produced. The first and most obvious objection to this kind of thinking is who decides what counts as the best? Is it something that should be decided on by individuals, for both themselves and their offspring or is it something that should be decided by societies or governments or specialist committees designed for the very purpose of determining what is good? It seems that everyone is entitled to decide for themselves, within certain limits what their conception of the Good Life is and to have the opportunity to live that. The view that not only are all enhancements acceptable but should be pursued goes against that idea, by restricting conceptions of the Good Life to those that fall into a tightly predetermined range. None of these options are without difficulties, including problems such as access to technologies and the possibility of nightmare like eugenic situation developing. The proponent of this sort of viewpoint has a large amount of work to do to convince us that such a Carte Blanc approach to genetic enhances is morally acceptable.

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