Eugenics is rightly maligned because it is associated with Nazism and forced sterilization campaigns. A negative description of those events in history is useful, even if we should have other words that have different connotations for the concept of positive human genetic modification. It would be good to retain that negative descriptor and bad to lose it!
“Entitlement” is used in this context to refer to a “right” someone has, which implies corresponding duties that others have. This is another term that is very confused and people disagree wildly over, particularly because there is not yet an agreed upon meta ethical foundation to ethics.
Libertarians just assume rights out of the ether, leading to the non-aggression principle, which isn’t very helpful in hard cases when these supposed rights conflict. Where rights come from must be in reference to the Rawlsian agreement you referred to.
I discuss this in the link below if you are interested. Hopefully we can get closer to figuring out our exact entitlements.
Eugenics is rightly maligned because it is associated with Nazism and forced sterilization campaigns. A negative description of those events in history is useful, even if we should have other words that have different connotations for the concept of positive human genetic modification. It would be good to retain that negative descriptor and bad to lose it!
“Entitlement” is used in this context to refer to a “right” someone has, which implies corresponding duties that others have. This is another term that is very confused and people disagree wildly over, particularly because there is not yet an agreed upon meta ethical foundation to ethics.
Libertarians just assume rights out of the ether, leading to the non-aggression principle, which isn’t very helpful in hard cases when these supposed rights conflict. Where rights come from must be in reference to the Rawlsian agreement you referred to.
I discuss this in the link below if you are interested. Hopefully we can get closer to figuring out our exact entitlements.
https://open.substack.com/pub/neonomos/p/there-are-no-natural-rights-without?r=1pded0&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post