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    It is not the case that Genetic interventions should be aimed at what is reasonably in the child's best interests.

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    • 1.The 'best interests' standard presupposes a determinate future self whose interests can be known prior to the interventions that partly constitute that self.
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    • 2.Parfit's work on personal identity shows that genetic interventions alter which person exists, making pre-intervention interest-attribution logically incoherent.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Habermas argues in 'The Future of Human Nature' that prenatal genetic programming violates the child's right to an open future by constituting an asymmetric, irrevocable self-relation.
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    • 2.A liberal ethics of the species requires that the child retain the capacity to revise the normative self-understanding imposed by parental genetic choices.
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    • 3.The 'best interests' framing obscures this autonomy violation by reducing a deontological wrong to a consequentialist welfare calculation.
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    • 1.Parental judgment about a child's best interests must accord with the judgment of most other informed members of society to count as reasonable.
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    • 2.Parental interests are relevant but not solely determinative.
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