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Direct Genetic Intervention
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beneficial genes are inserted into cells
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deactivate problematic genes
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substitute, augment, or counteract what the genes are doing to treat or prevent disease or modify traits
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| Public Health Model Main Idea |
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| Max bens & avoid harms for the aggregate. All about societal consequences. |
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| Public Health Model Problems |
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- Doesn't recognize individuals
- doesn't consider distro of harms and benefits
- may allow/require sacrifice of individuals |
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| Personal Service Main Idea |
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| Genetic test & interventions are just services like any other & individuals should be able to use them w/o interference from others |
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| Personal Service Problems |
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- Too much value on autonomy
- no concern for non autonomous children
- others impacted by our decisions
- may restrict opportunities/choices of others
- may increase inequalities |
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| - Adopt public service with limits on GE & cloning |
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| We must balance autonomy, justice & beneficence. |
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- The way we set up society determines who can participate & also who counts as disabled.
- We Have an obligation to be inclusive |
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If we could remove limiting factors and do not, it is unjust.
- This includes diseases and natural inequalities |
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| Justice of Principled Plurarlism |
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Moderate Egal:
- Equal opp, level playing field, eliminate inequalities due to disease/unfair advantages
- Restrict access to GE for well off
- Offer gen. enhancements to balance preexsisting inequalities |
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| There are a variety of objections to GE, but none of them are sufficient to rule out it principle |
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| Unintentional Altering of Future Generations |
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| - Nat disasters, global warming, health care, poverty relief, ect |
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| Intentional ways of altering future generations |
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| - Eugenic policies, genetic counseling, ect |
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| Glover and +/- genetic/environmental changes |
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- We already influence (+) Environment, (-) environment & (-) genetic. Why draw the line at (+) Genetic?
- Line between (+) and (-) already blurred and hard to tell which side of the line each falls on |
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| We should only modify gene when risk of disaster is very small & potential benefit is enough to justify it |
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| Glover response to playing god |
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- We already fuck with jesus' plans.
- Also, there is nothing wrong with tinkering with natural selection
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| - Allow parents to make decisions w/ govt having limited veto power in cases that depart from natural lottery |
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| Genetic enhancements would be immoral (medically irresponsible) but we should not have a legal ban |
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| We can at least make a common sense distinction between alleviating disease and augmenting normal functioning |
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| Gordon's Scientific Reality Check |
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- We need to be realistic about the current state of our science & what we can achieve
- It's not really possible to steer course of evo.
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| Gordon and Informed consent |
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| - Informed consent not possible b/c we don't know consequences. |
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| Vulnerability to chance and change |
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Principle of Extreme Caution
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| - Although some level of GE might be permissible, we need to be very careful that in improving ourselves, we don't lose valuable elements to our human nature or experience |
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| Paren's Argument for Refraining |
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P1 - If certain kinds of genetic enhancements would diminish the good of our experiences of beauty, relationships of care, & diversity, then we ought to refrain from those practices
P2 - Certain kinds of GE would significantly reduce our Fragility
P3 - Significantly reducing our fragility would diminish our experiences of beauty, relationships of care, and diversity
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C1 - Certain kinds of GE will diminish the good of our experiences of beauty, relationships of care, & diversity
C2 - We ought to refrain from certain kinds of GE |
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| the aim of science & tech is control over nature and restoration of perfection |
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| Make our lives healthier, better, longer, more productive |
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| We ought to consider what ends are worth achieving and at what cost |
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| The imperfect state is itself good. We ought not try to control nature, its not ours. Death is part of uniquely human good life |
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