Week 4, Vehmas

Question 1

What is the Genetic Information Argument?

Answer 1

P1. Parenting should be an unconditional commitment.

P2. If parenting should be an unconditional commitment then potential parents should not seek genetic information about potential children.

C. Potential parents should not seek genetic information about potential children.

Question 2

What is unconditional commitment in the context of Vehmas’s argument?

Answer 2

Parents must sacrifice their own well being for the child’s.

Question 3

What does Vehmas’s first premise say about cases in which potential parents do not have an unconditional commitment to parenting?

Answer 3

Parenting SHOULD be an unconditional commitment.

Question 4

What is the first inference implicit in Vehmas’s second premise?

Answer 4

You must have an unconditional commitment to your child as a parent.

Question 5

What is the second inference implicit in Vehmas’s second premise?

Answer 5

You should not choose to abort the fetus because of it being an undue burden/or choose not to have genetically related children.

Question 6

What is the third inference implicit in Vehmas’s second premise?

Answer 6

You should not seek genetic information about genetic children.

Question 7

What are some critiques of the Genetic Information Argument?

Answer 7

What about genetic testing to be prepared for the child?

Is this the same for adoption?