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Title:       Liberal Eugenics
Date:        2022-06-15
Tags:        box3
Link:        https://spool-five.com/box3/20220615t000002--liberal-eugenics__box3/
Word Count:  154
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#philosophy[1]
=>[1] https://spool-five.com/box3/20220602t000000--philosophy__box3/

As espoused in _From Chance to Choice_, liberal eugenics is a system
which seeks to apply John Rawls' Theory of Justice to the field of
genetics. In Rawls' system, to simplify it a bit, the fairest system is
one in which shares are distributed as evenly as possible. If you imagine
you are tasked with dividing a cake, but you don't know which slice you
will get in advance, rationally you will divide it as evenly as you can.
The same logic applies to social shares - from a rational perspective
you would find it _unfair_ if shared were distributed _too_ unequally.

The Rawls school apply this principle to genetics and claim that, in
order to promote a level playing field, we ought to use the powers of
genetic technologies to remedy the so-called genetic "deficiencies" that
put some people at an unfair disadvantage compared with others.