PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bipolar Disorder, Dementia, Expressivism
27 Mar 2018
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Procreation and child rearing (vaughn, weijer and al. , pp. What sort of child is it good to desire or to seek to produce ? (p. 133) For those using ivf it is obligatory to use pgd to select the best child possible. Therefore it is a moral obligation to rely on procreative beneficence (p. 135). In fact, pgd helps us to avoid producing children with asthma for example. Pgd is therefore capable of helping us promote welfare by helping us to produce children who will live better lives (p. 136) Conflict of principles such as beneficence and distributive justice. 2- we should consider the negative implications of pgd (gedge) Through the expressivist critique, the author argues that pgd and related technologies are problematic because they send a message that the lives of the disabled are not worth living (p. Therefore pgd is capable to produce consequentialist and symbolic harms.
