Genetics

Nicholas Agar, in his paper 'Designing Babies: Morally Permissible Ways to Modify the Human Genome', argues that while therapeutic genetic engineering is generally regarded as morally acceptable, it is a mistake to regard all forms of eugenic genetic engineering as morally abhorrent. I disagree with this position of Agar's and in the following paper I illustrate where his paper is weak and I present an argument why any form of genetic intervention, except in the most extreme circumstances, is morally impermissible.