Reddit reviews The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

My 2 cents:

1. What humanity needs is better and more devoted parents, not genetic manipulation. We know that good parenting is more apt to produce good kids, and bad parenting is more apt to produce bad kids; moreover, this has the added benefit of avoiding all the tricky ethical and metaphysical dilemmas involved in this prof's plan.
   
   
2. The position that we ought to genetically modify future generations has a certain prima facie intuitiveness to it. For that reason, any discussion of it should include the best arguments against, which imho include Jurgen Habermas' The Future of Human Nature and Michael Sandel's The Case Against Perfection.

Michael Sandel's The Case against Perfection {http://www.amazon.com/The-Case-against-Perfection-Engineering/dp/0674036387} is only 100 pages and touches on Eugenics of the Nazi's. Brief Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFcfygkMM0I

The counter is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVsnkRoYfX0 Dr. Gregory Stock To Upgrade is to be Human is only 17mins, he also has a book on it: Redesigning Humans.

The former takes a more philosophical view while the latter is more scientifically inclined.

If I recall correctly there was a debate on the bioethics between the two on a radio station I'll try to find it in the morning.

If you want to tie it to something modern President Bush had a bioethics committee of philosophers and political theorist to debate the subject (stem cells in particular but they touch on the same principles. I'm sure you can find a treasure drove of stuff

Hope I was of some assistance best of luck in teaching the class!

sorry if there are typos/syntax errors/bad writing it's late :)
also none of the aforementioned things are Kantian :x