{"id":114,"date":"2009-04-24T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T09:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-04-25T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T10:55:29","slug":"in-ur-genez-clozin-ur-futurz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/24\/in-ur-genez-clozin-ur-futurz\/","title":{"rendered":"In ur genez, clozin&#8217; ur futurz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know the &#8220;open future&#8221; argument against genetic modification of humans: that it&#8217;s part of being a human that we are apparently in control of our own lives and that a parent who tried to impose a &#8220;model&#8221; on us would thereby wrong us.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been sure, in all honesty, whether this tells us about the morality of engineering kids genetically, or about the morality of being a very pushy parent &#8211; but, in a sense, it doesn&#8217;t much matter.\u00a0 Closing down an open future might well be morally problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/573\/\">xkcd explains the upside<\/a>&#8230;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know the &#8220;open future&#8221; argument against genetic modification of humans: that it&#8217;s part of being a human that we are apparently in control of our own lives and that a parent who tried to impose a &#8220;model&#8221; on us would thereby wrong us.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been sure, in all honesty, whether this tells [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/04\/24\/in-ur-genez-clozin-ur-futurz\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}