Opinion essay: Liberal Eugenics

Personally I think liberal eugenics shouldn’t be practiced mainly because of the violation of the dignity and freedom of genetic modified beings because they would have been created, not by chance and by natural selection only by artificial selection arbitrary tastes third perhaps they do not like.

Basing myself in Kant and his categorical ethical, is not moral that the parents of an individual design and modify their genetic material that provides the desired image in the fashion or social movement that dominated at that time. Trying to improve our children the maximum we would get that liberal eugenics that were governed by market supply and demand. This would mean that we would instrumentalizing a rational being, whether for good or for bad, and therefore we don’t respect the categorical imperative of Kant, but we rely on a more materialistic and utilitarian ethics as the Mill. By this way, the identity, dignity and autonomy of children are affected because they are not born with characteristics determined by random natural selection, but their parents have designed a certain way by their interest and their tastes in a completely arbitrary and directed toward certain choices in life that makes them, at the same time, less free.

The liberal eugenics would also allow people to pay richest genetic therapies (which would be very expensive) to improve their children to be better than the others. This attitude is conditioned by competitive society there is today.

Overcrowding would be a serious problem for humanity as genetic modification achieved much lower mortality. People today tend to be selfish and worry about their particular interests, which makes one of the most desired goals there is longevity, causing overcrowding imminent. A serious problem would also be the lack of variability and would, in case of epidemic many people would die and it would affect in the evolution of the human species.

The result would be an instrumentalization of mankind together with the loss of dignity, freedom and autonomy of the people "enslaved" and poor, while the rich were living the life that everybody wants and, in turn, enriched by the others.

This may lead to a 3rd world war and constant rebellions in an unstable world, full of mistrust and exhausted values ​​and human rights.