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Are “Genetic Enhancements” Really Enhancements?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2000
The word enhancement is value laden and potentially misleading in the context of genetics. Dictionary definitions of enhance include “increase in value,” “improve,” “appreciate,” and “inflate.” The term genetic enhancement would be better replaced with a more neutral term such as “genetic manipulation” to reflect the fact that the consequences ...
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Enhancing genetic virtue.

Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, 2010
The Genetic Virtue Project (GVP) is a proposed interdisciplinary effort between philosophers, psychologists and geneticists to discover and enhance human ethics using biotechnology genetic correlates of virtuous behavior. The empirical plausibility that virtues have biological correlates is based on the claims that (a) virtues are a subset of ...
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Forgiveness, tolerance, and genetic enhancement

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, 2016
Summary Genetic enhancement that aims to remove human weaknesses would possibly ruin many things that have considerable moral value. Certain mental processes, such as (1) the process of forgiving and (2) the process of finding something tolerable consist partly of perceiving the other person as psychologically weak, and social institutions of ...
Juha Räikkä, Marko Ahteensuu
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