Who Really Needs Bioethics

Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are--not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

Notes:

It's not scientists who need ethics when it comes to genetic engineering, it's ordinary consumers who will jump at the chance to improve their children with the technology.

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What Should the Rules Be?

Periodicals>Magazine Article: Caplan, Arthur L(eonard) (22 Jan 2001), What Should the Rules Be?, Time, Retrieved on 2012-01-30

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