This ethical study will define the limitations of genetic enhancements for children in the theories posited by Julian Savulescu (2007) and Michael Sandel (year?). Savulescu (2007) defines some of the overarching responsibility of parents to use whatever means necessary to improve the lives of their children, which is a moral and ethical obligation in the use of genetic enhancements. However, Sandel (year?) countermands this argument by claiming that parents will more likely use genetic enhancement to control the outcome of the child’s development, and more dangerously, crate a child that will out-compete other children. This form of ambition and hierarchical perspective is a damaging and conflict-based problem in genetic enhancement because
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This perspective defines the potentially devastating view of perfection, yet these perfections are simply not possible in the natural world: “Overly ambitious parents are prone to get carried away with transforming love—promoting and demanding all manner of accomplishments from their children, seeking perfection” (p.7). In this manner, it is important to understand the limitations of human life, which is always changing and morphing tin the evolutionary process, which makes perfection a very dangerous objective to “overly ambitious” parents that do not understand the ramifications of genetic enhancement for their child …show more content…
In this context, it is important to understand the medical technology does offer surgical repairs to the human body, which does improve the life of the patient. More so, parents are traditionally obligated to provide the best training and diet for their children as part of the healthy family unit,. Certainly, no one wants to neglect their child, but there are more complicated issues related to genetic enhancement that is part of using medical technology to alter the genetic structure of a living entity before it is “born.” I agree with Savulescu on the already present state of technology in medical and surgical progress for already developed human beings, but I think it wrong to pre-form children through genetic enhancement. Children should have the right to choose their own destiny, but it is apparent that parents will be able to choose this role for them through their own premeditated life choices. In this manner, Sandel provides a more compelling understanding of the freedom and randomness of birthing a child, which should not be constructed around the personal whims of the
This perspective defines the potentially devastating view of perfection, yet these perfections are simply not possible in the natural world: “Overly ambitious parents are prone to get carried away with transforming love—promoting and demanding all manner of accomplishments from their children, seeking perfection” (p.7). In this manner, it is important to understand the limitations of human life, which is always changing and morphing tin the evolutionary process, which makes perfection a very dangerous objective to “overly ambitious” parents that do not understand the ramifications of genetic enhancement for their child …show more content…
In this context, it is important to understand the medical technology does offer surgical repairs to the human body, which does improve the life of the patient. More so, parents are traditionally obligated to provide the best training and diet for their children as part of the healthy family unit,. Certainly, no one wants to neglect their child, but there are more complicated issues related to genetic enhancement that is part of using medical technology to alter the genetic structure of a living entity before it is “born.” I agree with Savulescu on the already present state of technology in medical and surgical progress for already developed human beings, but I think it wrong to pre-form children through genetic enhancement. Children should have the right to choose their own destiny, but it is apparent that parents will be able to choose this role for them through their own premeditated life choices. In this manner, Sandel provides a more compelling understanding of the freedom and randomness of birthing a child, which should not be constructed around the personal whims of the