EUGENICS AS IT WILL BE


DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2415-881x.2022.88.22-35

Vadym Derkach (Деркач Вадим Леонтійович)

Abstract


The potential social effect of technologies for correcting ontogenetic programs in order to improve human qualities (eugenics) is considered. The expected trend in the development of reproductive technologies is to achieve a level at which the duration of intellectually productive longevity will increase critically, which inevitably actualizes eugenic logic. Under liberal values, genome editing technologies themselves do not carry any significant shifts and significant problems regarding the regulation of what is permissible in this edit. However, it is the lengthening of life expectancy, which can be partially facilitated by such editing with an investment in the future of descendants, that is the most reliable aspect of the developers’ efforts. As a result, this will lead to a radical transformation of a number of social institutions associated with the reproduction of people, during which acute ethical conflicts arise.

Keywords


eugenics; reproductive technologies; human evolution; ethics; liberal values

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