I love my children: am I racist? On the wish to be biologically related to one's children

Ezio Di Nucci

doi:10.1136/medethics-2017-104213

I love my children: am I racist? On the wish to be biologically related to one's children

Ezio Di Nucci

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Abstract

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Medical Ethics
Vol/bind	44
Udgave nummer	12
Sider (fra-til)	814-816
Antal sider	3
ISSN	0306-6800
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2017-104213
Status	Udgivet - 2018

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