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    It is not the case that A selective mentality in reproduction may lead to conditional rather than unconditional love for children after birth

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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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    • 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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