CAT 2 Lecture Notes - The Slippery Slope, Slippery Slope, Eugenics

• School: UCSD
• Department: Culture, Art, & Technology
• Course: CAT 2
• Professor: Gerald Doppelt

Document Summary

Kitcher defends eugenic decision making on the grounds of only curing. However, society eventually eases into using genetic technologies for less serious issues, such as cosmetic faults. This quickly falls out of control: slippery slope could result in a strictly and rigidly regulated society where people essentially fit the mold of society"s preference and idea of a perfect genetic race, destroying genetic diversity. Can it ever be right that one scheme of values can be used to determine genetic worth, and who should live and who should be destroyed: e. g. Carry buck is sterilized on the grounds of preventing imbeciles, and was a ruling that was upheld by the supreme court. Of course, this depends on their ability to afford tests. The state and political power should be hands off. No political decisions by political entities: appeals to the value of liberty and truth.