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[SANET-MG] can people be described as being organic or not
Genetic modification and genetic determinism
David B Resnik and Daniel B Vorhaus
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine 2006, 1:9
doi:10.1186/1747-5341-1-9
Published 26 June 2006
Abstract
In this article we examine four objections to the genetic modification
of human beings: the freedom argument, the giftedness argument, the
authenticity argument, and the uniqueness argument. We then demonstrate
that each of these arguments against genetic modification assumes a
strong version of genetic determinism. Since these strong deterministic
assumptions are false, the arguments against genetic modification, which
assume and depend upon these assumptions, are therefore unsound. Serious
discussion of the morality of genetic modification, and the development
of sound science policy, should be driven by arguments that address the
actual consequences of genetic modification for individuals and society,
not by ones propped up by false or misleading biological assumptions.
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