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    Challenges→Private reproductive choices about genetic traits can have a eugenic effect on society even without state coercion

    A consequentialist demographic pattern lacking any shared intentional structure does not constitute a morally attributable social practice for which individuals or society can bear responsibility.

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    Key Terms

    Demographic pattern(as used in sociology and social philosophy)
    A repeated trend or behavior that shows up across a group of people, often tracked by characteristics like age, gender, income, or location.
    Morally attributable(as used in ethics and moral responsibility)
    Capable of being assigned moral credit or blame—something we can hold someone responsible for in an ethical sense.
    Social practice(where habitus operates in real life)
    The actual day-to-day actions and behaviors that people do within society, as opposed to theory or ideas.
    consequentialist(Shared position of Russell and Moore)
    One who believes that the rightness or otherwise of an act is in some way dependent on consequences.
    intentional structure

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    The structure of human thought as directed toward or about objects and states of affairs
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)

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