PHL 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Interchangeable Parts, Designer Baby, Bioethics
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Therapy involves taking someone who is function below normal and bringing them to normal. Enhancement is taking someone who is normal and moving them above normal. Should not worry about enhancement we should enhance. We can enhance in many ways but he focuses on genetic enhancement. Three arguments for why we have a duty for genetic enhancement. Neglect to give child who has high iq the supplements needed to keep that. Neglect to give supplement that would raise iq from normal to high. If you think that neglectful parents are morally wrong than lazy parents are too. We allow non genetic enhancements education and diet and training. If the outcome is the same then why treat biological manipulation to environmental manipulation. Criticism is that this argument would need to show that the means are morally different. Objection 1: genetic enhancements are biological enchantments so morally different. Reply education and iet and training also affect our biology.
