Communitarian thinkers like Michael Sandel argue that unconditional parental love requires accepting children as gifts rather than optimizing them, which the open future framework perversely undermines by making selection obligatory when futures can be widened.
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Deliberately selecting or engineering traits to make something 'better' or more perfect according to a plan—in this case, choosing what kind of child to have.
Selection obligatory(describing what Sandel sees as an unintended consequence)
When the 'open future' principle requires parents to actively choose which traits or characteristics their children will have, making genetic or developmental selection feel like a moral duty.
Unconditional parental love(as the value that communitarians want to protect)
The idea that parents should love their children simply for who they are, without expecting them to meet certain standards or conditions.