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    Challenges→Genetic interventions should be aimed at what is reasonably in the child's best interests.

    A standard requiring benefit to a child who would not exist without the intervention cannot ground prohibitions on that intervention without collapsing into the non-identity problem.

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    Collapse into (a logical problem)(as used in logical analysis and argumentation)
    When an argument or principle fails because it breaks down into an unwanted or problematic conclusion, making the original approach unworkable.
    Ground (or grounding)(explaining what provides the basis for requirements)
    To serve as the foundation or reason for something; to explain why something is true or obligatory.
    Prohibitions(as used in ethics and legal philosophy)
    Official rules or laws that forbid or ban certain actions.
    intervention(Used within manipulability theories of causation)
    An action or event I on a variable X that breaks the causal connection between X and its causes while leaving other causal mechanisms intact, or that does not affect Y via a causal route that does not go through X.

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    non-identity problem(Applied to reparations for slavery: the present U.S. black population would not exist if slavery had never occurred.)
    The problem that one cannot be said to have been harmed by an event if, had that event not occurred, one would not have existed at all.

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