Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 15 (1) (2019)
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Prospective parents are sometimes partial towards their future children, engaging in what I call ‘pre-parental partiality’. Common sense morality is as permissive of pre-parental partiality as it is of ordinary parental partiality—partiality towards one’s existing children. But I argue that existing justifications for partiality typically establish weaker reasons in support of pre-parental partiality than in support of parental partiality. Thus, either these existing justifications do not fully account for our reasons of parental partiality, or our reasons to engage in pre-parental partiality are indeed typically weaker than our reasons to engage in parental partiality.
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Keywords | partiality parenthood parenting ethics non-identity problem person-affecting love genetic selection procreative beneficence |
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DOI | 10.26556/jesp.v15i1.351 |
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