<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"> Circumcision is something that does not provide a good except for a fairly narrow range of life projects. anders</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">This is just gutbusting funny!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">Anders, you have found a new career: writer for dry wit comics.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:27.2px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Anders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 2016-09-27 19:57, William Flynn Wallace wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">It got me to
thinking: the basic objection is that it was done without
permission.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Now I assume that
many of us in this group are in favor of genetically modifying
embryos to eliminate undesirable traits, and perhaps even to
enhance desirable ones.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">How can you
reconcile the two attitudes?</div>
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General purpose goods.<br>
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Being healthy, long-lived, intelligent etc. is good for nearly all
plausible life projects. These general purpose goods increase the
range of possibilities open for the person. Circumcision is
something that does not provide a good except for a fairly narrow
range of life projects.<br>
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There is also a timing issue: most of the above GPGs need to be
given on the embryo stage for them to provide their benefits.
Circumcision can be done later (and voluntarily). <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University</pre>
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