TY - JOUR
T1 - I love my children
T2 - am I racist? On the wish to be biologically related to one's children
AU - Di Nucci, Ezio
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PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Is the wish to be biologically related to your children legitimate? Here, I respond to an argument in support of a negative answer to this question according to which a preference towards having children one is biologically related to is analogous to a preference towards associating with members of one's own race. I reject this analogy, mainly on the grounds that only the latter constitutes discrimination; still, I conclude that indeed a preference towards children one is biologically related to is morally illegitimate because, in the context of parental love, biological considerations are normatively irrelevant.
AB - Is the wish to be biologically related to your children legitimate? Here, I respond to an argument in support of a negative answer to this question according to which a preference towards having children one is biologically related to is analogous to a preference towards associating with members of one's own race. I reject this analogy, mainly on the grounds that only the latter constitutes discrimination; still, I conclude that indeed a preference towards children one is biologically related to is morally illegitimate because, in the context of parental love, biological considerations are normatively irrelevant.
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U2 - 10.1136/medethics-2017-104213
DO - 10.1136/medethics-2017-104213
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29853548
SN - 0306-6800
VL - 44
SP - 814
EP - 816
JO - Journal of Medical Ethics
JF - Journal of Medical Ethics
IS - 12
ER -