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    The 'best interests' standard presupposes a determinate f... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Genetic interventions should be aimed at what is reasonably in the child's best interests.

    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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    • 1.Identity is partly constituted by prior interventions, making future preferences partially unknowable before those interventions occur.
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    • 2.The 'best interests' standard requires knowing what a future self will want, but interventions shape preferences themselves.
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    • 3.We cannot access a self independent of formative influences to determine its 'true' interests objectively.
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    • 1.We can reliably predict general human flourishing patterns (health, autonomy, relationships) across diverse life trajectories.
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    • 2.The claim conflates epistemological uncertainty about preferences with metaphysical indeterminacy of the future self itself.
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    • 3.If no intervention could ever serve anyone's interests due to this circularity, the standard becomes pragmatically vacuous and self-defeating.
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