Genetic Technology

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This paper presents the argument of bioethicists in favor of a complete ban on genetic testing and then states that many Christians are opposed to this ban. The author believes that limits can be set by using a treatment-enhancement distinction and presents a three part argument. The author believes that while there is a great deal of peril that can be associated with the use of genetic technology with proper and careful restraints on the use of genetic technology, we will be able to use it as a form of medicine to relieve pain, disability and death.

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"There are two major variants of the level playing field conception. The first view is the social structuralist view, which requires that something be done to counteract the opportunity-limiting effects of bad luck in the social lottery as far as limitations result from ongoing effects of unjust social structures " with the emphasis on unjust institutions, not necessarily natural difference among persons. The second view is the brute luck view, which requires that persons should not have lesser opportunities due to how they fare in the social lottery, regardless of whether this inequity originated in unjust institutions " with the emphasis on those factors beyond one's control. The most glaring difference between these two views is that under the social structural view, there are no direct implications for natural inequities (not institutions), while the brute luck view does."

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