Exam 10: Cloning and Genetic Enhancement

Kamm contrasts Sandel's view about "balancing" acceptance and transformative love and a view he calls _________, according to which the goal of enhancement is not perfection but mastery as a means to getting sufficient goods.

Sandel's case against moral engineering can best be considered

The objection that choosing a child's genotype will tell us how that child will live is what Pence calls "the argument for a(n) _________ future."

In Sandel's view, "striving is not the point of sports; _________ is."

Kamm claims that Sandel's moral distinction between treatment and enhancement assumes that

Kass claims that almost everybody thinks about cloning from the point of view of the cloned child, rather than from the point of view of adults choosing to clone.

In response to Sandel's "enhancement versus treatment" argument, Kamm claims that nature can fail to be good and the good can fail to be natural.

According to Kass the fact that people (like him) feel repugnance at the thought of human reproductive cloning

What does SCNT stand for, as used in the discussion on cloning?

The first "test tube" baby was born in 1978 using in vitro fertilization.

According to Kass, one problem with cloning is that

The crucial difference between sexual and asexual reproduction is that only the former requires sexual intercourse.

_________ fertilization is the process through which a sperm fertilizes an egg outside a woman's body and is later implanted in a woman's uterus.

Kass worries that cloned individuals:

Kamm distinguishes ex _________ and ex post "designing," where the former is a matter of choosing traits for a child that does not yet exist.

According to Singer, preventing the possible social harms of the genetic supermarket will require addressing very difficult fundamental value questions.

According to Sandel, the ethics of effort is superior to the ethics of giftedness.

One of the premises of the "lack of imagination" argument that Kamm discusses is that

Kamm discusses the case of someone who is careless with his hairdryer to illustrate the point that we are not always responsible for bearing the costs of our mistakes.

Pence argues that reproductive cloning will have better consequences than other forms of reproduction and is thus permissible on consequentialist grounds.