PHIL 27 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Julian Savulescu, Sex Selection, Consequentialism
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Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children: Is it morally ok to select embryos? (414: savulescu says yes because it is rational to choose the option most likely to bring about the best outcome; consequentialist. If she conceives now, she will have a blind and deaf child. If she waits 3 months, she will conceive another different but healthy child. Counterarguments (418: if you choose the embryo without disease, you could be discarding someone like mozart, response: it is equally possible that you could discard someone like. Mozart if you pick the embryo with the disease. Capacity to imagine alternative pleasures and remember past experiences is important to choose the best life (421) Intelligence has a high value for persons in giving them a large amount of complexity with which to approach their everyday lives, so it is necessary to have intelligence/ wisdom to have a good life.
