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How Conservatives View Human Enhancement

Explore the complex discussion on designer babies and the contrasting views on human enhancement in society.

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If there is anything the internet is good for beyond cat photos (see "le sneak" above), it is for arguing. In the spirit of elevating the discourse, I'm going to try and salvage the aftermath of my designer baby post, which itself was a response to Peter Lawler's post

. In the process, I'll explain to you exactly how social conservatives view the human enhancement debate. A quick recap: Peter Lawler wrote a post at Big Think about Designer Babies and how they pose a threat to the middle class. I responded with a brilliant rebuttal

that displayed my rapier wit and rhetorical dynamism. Now, the chaps at The New Atlantis' Futurisms

are unhappy with how I portrayed George W. Bush's President's Council on Bioethics and Peter Lawler in that magnificent post. Peter Lawler also "responded

" to me by block-quoting the arguments of blogger Minerva, who writes her own ...

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