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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.All parenting shapes children's futures irreversibly (nutrition, education, culture); genetic choices are continuous with this, not categorically different.
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    • 2.The 'open future' concept is vague—no life remains genuinely open; all persons inherit biological and social constraints from birth.
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    • 3.Therapeutic genetic interventions correcting severe diseases may expand, not restrict, a child's future autonomy and life possibilities.
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    • 1.Children deserve freedom to author their own life narrative without predetermined genetic constraints imposed by parental choice.
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    • 2.Genetic programming creates irreversible identity conditions that the future person cannot consent to or reject later.
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    • 3.Asymmetric power in genetic design—where parents unilaterally determine a child's biological nature—differs fundamentally from other parental decisions.
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