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    Selecting for fair-skinned children in a racist society p... — Carmelics
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    Selecting for fair-skinned children in a racist society perpetuates social injustice against darker-skinned people without diminishing the wellbeing of the selected children.

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    • 1.Rawlsian justice requires that social institutions not entrench advantages derived from morally arbitrary traits like skin color.
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    • 2.Parental reproductive choices that systematically exploit unjust racial hierarchies function as quasi-institutional practices with distributive consequences.
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    • 3.A practice that foreseeably deepens structural disadvantage for the least favored group violates the difference principle regardless of individual benefit.
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    • 1.Structural injustice, as Iris Marion Young argues, is perpetuated through individually rational actions that cumulatively reproduce oppressive systems.
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    • 2.Selecting for skin tone to gain racial privilege is a paradigm case where individual optimization reproduces collective domination without any single actor bearing full responsibility.
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    • 3.The absence of wellbeing harm to the selected child does not dissolve the agent's contributory responsibility for sustaining the unjust structure they are navigating.
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    • 1.In a racist society, fair-skinned individuals face no wellbeing penalty from being selected.
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    • 2.The selection reinforces racial hierarchy and sustains injustice against those with darker skin.
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    • 3.Therefore, the selection can simultaneously preserve or increase individual wellbeing while deepening social injustice.
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    Some have denied that social injustice could result from selecting or editing for particular traits that increase people’s chances at a better life (Savulescu 2001). To the extent that those traits contribute to inequality, the argument goes, it is unlikely that they could promote wellbeing (Savulescu 2001, 424). This claim seems, however, either irrelevant or false (de Melo-Martin 2017). Prospective parents choosing certain traits for their children could do so without realizing that they are a
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