PHILOS 2B03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Julian Savulescu, Fetus, Social Inequality
13 Dec 2017
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Julian savulescu, i(cid:374) his a(cid:396)ti(cid:272)le (cid:862)p(cid:396)o(cid:272)(cid:396)eati(cid:448)e be(cid:374)efi(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e: wh(cid:455) we hould ele(cid:272)t the best. Even if the connection between genes and intelligence is only weakly probabilistic. Proactive beneficence (pb) the moral obligation to have the best children possible. Implies that couples should employ genetic tests for non-disease traits when selecting which embryo to bring into existence. The morally relevant property of a diseased trait, or negative non-disease trait is that it reduces the well-being of the person who has it. The mozart objection choosing embryo b could be discarding potentially amazing embryo a. Equally true that in the opposite case that you could be discarding a potentially amazing person with no associated disease. Procreative autonomy couples should be able to decide when and how to procreate and what kind of children to have. By virtue of this couples should be allowed to select the diseased over the non- diseased if they so choose to.
