HPSC1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Bryan Caplan, Sex Selection, Human Nature
9 Jun 2018
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Lecture 19: More on sex selection
Objections (Glover 67-68)
1. Using an unborn child as a commodity
Is the child merely being treated as a means?
Glover: first, you cannot violate the autonomy of a baby. Second, not merely a
means because many parents want another child anyways
2. Many embryos will be destroyed. Some critics argue that these embryos deserve respect.
But hat if…
- You have a child to compensate for the death of child number one?
- Or you have a child to use an organ rather than to use it umbilical cells?
- Or you have a savior child and then put it up for adoption?
- In these cases, the Kantian objection looks much stronger. But would it be worse if these
people did not exist? Are they lucky to be alive nonetheless?
Paretal poer oer deelopet, or hat right had you to deterie hat I like?
- To what extent should parents be free to shape the identity of their children?
- Is prenatal manipulation different/worse than:
Choosing schools/homeschooling?
Academic pressure?
Emphasising values?
Bringing up kids in a small unpopular religion?
o Bryan Caplan
- Yes, I ish to loe self ad raise the a as so. Seriously. I want to experience
the sublime bond I'm sure we'd share. I'm confident that he'd be delighted, too, because
I would love to be raised by me. I'm not pushing others to clone themselves. I'm not
asking anyone else to pay for my dream. I just want government to leave me and the
cloning business alone. Is that too uh to ask?
Is that egotistic?
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Document Summary
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