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It should be noted that even in this brief work, there is little specific focus on eugenics (that is, a systematic program to make future generations more genetically fit)perse, still less on the specific possibility that it might be accomplished by ingenious use of the genetic engineering methods that are commonplace in creating new crop varieties and which can probably be extended to human beings within a matter of decades. [...] all sorts of techniques for remediation of juvenile shortcomings and for paving a child's path to Olympian perfection have sprung up (though no doubt some are delusory): hormone treatments of kids even in the normal range, height-wise, to assure that they will reach the tall end of die bellcurve; sports camps offering intensivetraining programs that aim to pull them up to professional levels of proficiency; all sorts of tutoring and coaching courses to ensure that they will knock the socks off the SAT.
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No Child Left Behind
No Child Left Behind A review of The case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel. Belknap (Harvard University Press) 2007.162pp, hardback, $18.95, ISBN-13: 97&0-674-01927-0
What apiece of work is man/ How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties/ inform and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!-William Shakespeare, HamletHistory is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.-Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpireAT THE OUTSET, LET ME PREFACE this critique of Prof. Sandel's book with a confession: I am a closet eugenicist. A eugenicist for reasons that I shall set forth in taking issue with Sandel and for further reasons that I shall expo...See the full content of this document
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