Ezekiel Emanuel: prediction

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…The first piece of yours I could find was published in Dissent in 1984, “The Ethics of Splicing Life.” Now, to fast-forward to the current day, what are your views about genetic engineering of the next generation, if we could do it more efficaciously than is currently the case? But possibly that is coming. To what extent should we regulate voluntary parental choices, if any? Again, this goes back to, I think . . . Typically, it’s a parental choice. We permit parents to have lots of choices over their kids, but having a few people make choices inevitably affects all the rest of us in all sorts of ways. And I don’t think this is a way . . . I do think this is a very good place to draw a line. I don’t think we’ve had a very good educated national discussion about what it would mean to enhance children or not enhance children. I think we have to have that kind of discussion before we go forward. I’m no big fan of it, in part because I don’t think we’re wise enough to figure out what’s good, and we are very likely to overemphasize the wrong thing. As I said, we tend to overemphasize certain values and ignore other values. We do this individually, and we do this collectively. So, I’m not a big fan. What’s the most likely —…

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