Word: sandel
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...appreciate children as gifts is at least to a certain point to accept them as they come, not to cast them as objects of our design, products of our will, or instruments of our ambition,” Sandel said...
...While Sandel expressed moral qualms with genetic enhancement, Pinker focused on the scientific improbability of the problem...
...response to Sandel’s critique of the human desire to exert mastery and control over the human body—an argument Sandel dubbed “the hubris objection”—Pinker noted that this type of hubris is commonplace in our society today...
Coffin, however, sided more with Sandel, expressing concern with the dehumanizing results of genetic engineering...
...response to a question about where to draw the line between improvements in human health and designer genes, Sandel brought up the example of a man that tried to create a super-race by soliciting sperm from winners of the Nobel prize before the creation of Viagra...