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    Unlike cultural transmission, genetic modification is irr... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Genetic interventions that narrow but do not eliminate a child's future options are morally permissible.

    Unlike cultural transmission, genetic modification is irreversible and operates at the constitutional level of the person, foreclosing future autonomous revision of one's own traits.

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    Cultural transmission(as used in anthropology and evolutionary theory)
    The process of passing knowledge, beliefs, and practices from one generation to the next or from one group to another through learning and communication.
    Irreversible(describing ecological losses that are permanent)
    Something that cannot be undone or brought back to how it was before.
    autonomy / autonomous(referring to a person's ability to decide about their own traits in the future)
    The capacity to make your own free choices and decisions about yourself without being controlled by others.
    constitutional level(describing where genetic modification operates)
    Referring to the fundamental, basic structure or nature of something—in this case, the essential makeup of a person's body and identity.

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    foreclosing(describing how genetic modification prevents future choices about one's traits)
    Cutting off or preventing something from happening; closing off an option before it can be chosen.
    genetic modification(compared to cultural transmission as something irreversible)
    Deliberately changing the DNA or genes of a living organism to alter its traits or characteristics.

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