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    The unfairness objection does not identify anything disti... — Carmelics
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    The unfairness objection does not identify anything distinctive about genetic enhancement compared to other parental enhancement methods.

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    • 1.Rawlsian fair equality of opportunity applies equally to advantages conferred by genetic selection and by socioeconomic investments like private schooling.
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    • 2.Norman Daniels's extension of Rawls to health shows that what matters morally is the magnitude of competitive advantage conferred, not the biological or social mechanism producing it.
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    • 3.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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    • 1.Allen Buchanan et al. in 'From Chance to Choice' argue that the natural/artificial distinction carries no independent moral weight when assessing distributive fairness.
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    • 2.The relevant moral variable in enhancement ethics is the degree to which an advantage widens opportunity gaps between children, not whether its substrate is genomic or environmental.
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    • 3.Since private schooling already produces heritable socioeconomic advantages across generations, singling out genetic enhancement as distinctively unfair commits a category error by privileging substrate over outcome.
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    • 1.The unfairness objection is also applicable to other ways parents attempt to enhance their children, such as private schooling.
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    • 2.It is not clear why genetic enhancement is more troubling than private schooling or other non-genetic enhancements.
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    A second argument against permitting parents to genetically enhance their offspring is that it is liable to exacerbate unfairness. Enhancements will probably be available only to richer parents. As a result, their offspring, who are already advantaged over their peers, would be even better able to compete against them (Etieyibo 2012).This is commonly raised as a particular objection to genetic (or other biomedical) enhancements, but it is not clear why there is something distinctive about geneti
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