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    When a parent encodes a preference into a child's genome,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Genetic interventions that narrow but do not eliminate a child's future options are morally permissible.

    When a parent encodes a preference into a child's genome, the child cannot retrospectively reject or renegotiate that self-defining feature, structurally subordinating their autonomy to another's will.

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    Encode(as used in metaphysics)
    To contain or express something in a compressed or underlying form, like how DNA encodes the instructions for building a living organism.
    autonomy(Used to ground worker rights to self-governance in the workplace)
    The right to freely determine one's own actions
    genome(Contrasted with the view of the genome as an eternal or immortal substance.)
    A highly complex set of dynamic activities (a process) crucial in maintaining the structural and functional stability of the organism and, through reproduction, of the lineage.
    retrospectively(as used in this philosophical argument)
    Looking back at something that already happened in the past; after the fact.
    self-defining feature

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    (as used in philosophy of identity)
    A characteristic about yourself that feels central to who you are as a person—something that shapes your identity.
    structurally subordinating(as used in discussions of power and freedom)
    Setting up a system or situation where one person's power or will is permanently placed above another person's, like building inequality into the very foundation of a relationship.

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