PSYC 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fetus, Crispr, Gene Doping

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Ethics of behaviour genetics (margaret somerville guest lecture) Euthanasia: science put at the service of perverted ideologies. Ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics (the experimental psychologist and research psychologist are looking at how we actually make ethical decisions) are both being researched. Study: there are unconscious factors involved in how we make those decisions. Somerville argues that our primary decision-making mechanism is not reason but (moral) intuition. E. g. arti(cid:272)le: (cid:449)he(cid:374) people ha(cid:448)e a (cid:271)a(cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d it has so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:449)ro(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith it i. e. do(cid:449)(cid:374)"s syndrome; you can have an abortion if you knew about it; you should also be able to post-birth abortion (lethal injection) World was horrified by this: yuck factor reaction. Idea of disenhancement: society will need dumber people for the jobs that the intelligent people will not do. Program for nurturing behaviour or aggressive or timid behaviour: behavioural genetics is rich in promise:

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