By Nicholas Agar
During this provocative publication, thinker Nicholas Agar defends the concept that mom and dad may be allowed to augment their children’s characteristics.Gets clear of fears of a Huxleyan ‘Brave New international’ or a go back to the fascist eugenics of the pastWritten from a philosophically and scientifically expert element of viewConsiders genuine modern instances of oldsters making a choice on what sort of baby to haveUses ‘moral pictures’ so as to get readers without historical past in philosophy to contemplate ethical dilemmasProvides an authoritative account of the technological know-how concerned, making the booklet compatible for readers with out wisdom of geneticsCreates an ethical framework for assessing all new applied sciences
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1 I present the method of moral images to help us to make decisions about enhancement technologies. The moral image of an unfamiliar practice is another practice chosen both for its similarity to the problematic practice and the fact that it elicits moral reactions of which we are confident. If we have chosen our image well, consistency will demand that we react to the unfamiliar practice in the same way that we react to the familiar one. Conservatives’ images of enhancement prompt negative judgements.
None of these accounts allows us to make sense of the Raelian proposal. Consider the soul theory. Does cloning transfer not only DNA, but also a soul, from one person’s body into the body of a clone? It is unlikely that this could be the case. Remember that all that somatic cell nuclear transfer requires from me is a single cell. I shed millions of cells every day in brushing my hair, drying myself with a towel, and rolling around in my sheets. If nuclear transfer can move my soul from my current body to my clone’s body, then we would have to say that my soul somehow adheres to each of these cells until their DNA has degraded to a point that it is useless to would-be cloners.
If their pronouncements are any guide, CLONAID’s close contact with the science of cloning humans has not conduced to a deeper understanding of the morality of this undertaking. They seem to have a keen sense of cloning’s publicity value, but little interest in its potential to transgress moral norms. We can avoid arguing from Hollywood misrepresentations or taking scientists’ pronouncements on faith if we find descriptions of enhancement technologies that make them morally transparent. Morally transparent descriptions reveal moral effects, effects that occur at the points of contact between a technology and morally valuable beings.