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    Supports→The unfairness objection does not identify anything distinctive about genetic enhancement compared to other parental enhancement methods.

    If we tolerate profound inequalities from private tutoring without special moral censure, consistency requires the same evaluative framework for genetic enhancements of comparable effect.

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    Comparable effect(The argument claims that genetic enhancements and private tutoring achieve similar advantages, so they deserve similar moral judgment.)
    Producing similar or equivalent results or outcomes.
    Genetic enhancements(The statement compares the ethics of genetic enhancements to the ethics of private tutoring as methods of gaining advantage.)
    Using genetic technology or engineering to improve human traits like intelligence, athleticism, or health.
    Moral censure(The statement asks whether we blame genetic enhancements the same way we do (or don't blame) private tutoring.)
    Disapproval or blame from an ethical standpoint—treating something as morally wrong or bad.
    Tolerate(In ethics, when we 'tolerate' something, we're saying we accept it as permissible rather than condemning it as wrong.)
    To allow something to exist or continue even though you might not fully approve of it.

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    consistency(Syntactic concept in many-sorted logic)
    The syntactic counterpart of satisfiability; corresponds to satisfiability in the same sense as ⊢ corresponds to ⊨
    evaluative framework(as used in philosophy of friendship and epistemology)
    A shared set of beliefs about what's good, bad, valuable, or worthless that two people use to make judgments.

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