
Julian Savulescu on Designer Babies (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Philosophy Bites
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The Problem With Inequality
There are two solutions. One is to ban the use of technology and the other one is to make it freely available as we make basic medicine, basic healthcare available. How you use this technology, what kind of society it creates is up to us to decide according to our policies. The most irrational policy is one that just we won't use it at all. I'm a believer that at this point nature surpasses the sorts of choices we can make. In 10 or 20 years when whole genome analysis is much cheaper and we have a better idea of what genes do do, then I would want my children to be empathic and capable of interacting and belonging to a social group. That's not
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