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    A selective mentality in reproduction may lead to conditi... — Carmelics
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    A selective mentality in reproduction may lead to conditional rather than unconditional love for children after birth

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    • 1.Michael Sandel argues in 'The Case Against Perfection' that the drive to mastery in genetic selection erodes the disposition of 'unconditional giftedness' that grounds parental love.
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    • 2.When a child is chosen for specific traits, parental attachment becomes structurally indexed to those traits, making love contingent on trait-expression rather than mere existence.
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    • 3.Commodification of procreative inputs, as Kantian analysis suggests, transforms children into products evaluated against specifications, shifting the relational frame from reception to assessment.
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    • 1.Developmental psychology research by Wendy Farr and others shows that parents using preimplantation genetic diagnosis report higher anxiety when children display unexpected traits, indicating trait-expectation shapes bonding.
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    • 2.Aristotelian virtue ethics holds that habituated dispositions formed during procreative deliberation persist into parenting practice, meaning selective mentalities cultivated pre-birth structurally condition post-birth relational attitudes.
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    • 1.Parents who go to great lengths and incur great expense to procure 'perfect' gametes may develop unrealistic expectations
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    • 2.Unrealistic expectations and feelings of entitlement may cause parents to reject or mistreat children who fail to develop the 'right' capacities and interests
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    Some suggest, however, that although selection is not necessarily morally problematic, we should still be concerned that a selective mentality may be a precursor of conditional, as opposed to unconditional, love once the child is born, or to unrealistic expectations and feelings of entitlement. Thus, the suggestion here is that people who go to great lengths and incur great expense in procuring what are, for them, the ‘perfect’ gametes, may be more likely to reject or otherwise mistreat their ch
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