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Enhancing Evolution : The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The attitude we take toward human enhancement is one of the biggest policy choices we face in the coming years but it's one that rarely recieves any serious analysis. Harris, therefore, deserves credit not only for calling this issue to our attention but also approaching it in a rational objective fashion instead of relying on the eww factor or the emotional appeal of enhancement. Unfortunately the book soon becomes rather repetitive. Each new chapter seems to do little than provide a new setting in which to propound his main points. These include: 1) Their is no principled distinction to be drawn between enhancement and things like vaccinations or preventative measures against cancer as both give us abilities we lack. 2) There is no principled reason to distinguish enhancement via good parenting and good schools from genetic enhancement. If we aren't willing to demand that rich parents/countries give up the permanent advantages arising from proper childhood nutrition we shouldn't treat the permanent advantages from genetic modification any differently. 3) Worries about safety and harmful side effects are reasons to proceed with caution and analyze individual proposals care

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Author

John Harris

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691148168

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Philosophy