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    The unfairness objection is also applicable to other ways... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The unfairness objection does not identify anything distinctive about genetic enhancement compared to other parental enhancement methods.

    The unfairness objection is also applicable to other ways parents attempt to enhance their children, such as private schooling.

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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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