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    Genetic interventions that narrow but do not eliminate a ... — Carmelics
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    Genetic interventions that narrow but do not eliminate a child's future options are morally permissible.

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    • 1.Parental love almost always prevails regardless of the traits a child has.
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    • 2.A future that is narrowed but still allows the child to choose how her life goes remains sufficiently open.
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    • 3.Parents already shape children's futures through values, education, and religion without moral objection.
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    • 1.Joel Feinberg's 'right to an open future' holds that children have enforceable interests in preserving a range of life options until autonomous self-determination is possible.
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    • 2.A genetic intervention that narrows options acts before consent is possible, making it categorically distinct from reversible environmental shaping like education or religious upbringing.
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    • 3.Unlike cultural transmission, genetic modification is irreversible and operates at the constitutional level of the person, foreclosing future autonomous revision of one's own traits.
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    • 1.Habermas argues in 'The Future of Human Nature' that prenatal genetic programming violates the symmetry of relations required for genuine moral equality between persons.
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    • 2.When a parent encodes a preference into a child's genome, the child cannot retrospectively reject or renegotiate that self-defining feature, structurally subordinating their autonomy to another's will.
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    • 3.This asymmetry is not merely quantitative—a matter of degree of narrowing—but qualitative, corrupting the very self-understanding required for the child to author a coherent life narrative.
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    Constraints on parental reproductive decisions about what traits to choose can also be seen as conflicting with reproductive freedom and parental autonomy. For instance, Green (2007) rejects the “right to an open future” language in part because he thinks parents must be allowed to do things that are more for their own interests than for the sake of their children, even when doing so affects how the children develop. Following William Ruddick (2007), he thinks of parents as both guardians and ga
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