Lau, Nikki and Haggarty-Weir, Christopher (2024) Positive Modern Eugenics and the Issue of Correlation Between High Intelligence and Mental Illness. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Modern eugenics has been embraced by the advances of genetic germline editing (GGE) through intentional control of desired genetic properties. Such interventions hold a precautionary lesson to the pursuit of ethically permissible eugenic practices. While there are distinct causative correlations between high IQ and mental illness, we present a novel set of arguments in part to enhance: (A) low to average and/or high IQ, and (B) average to high IQ, upon the goal of positive modern eugenics. By correlating intellectual enhancement and possible mental illness in different cases, we argue that GGE is morally right if and only if it fulfils both the subsequent criteria: First, the individuals carry more than 50% heritable mental disease risk. Second, the resultant intervention must promise an overall benefit without further exacerbation of the illness. In the absence of a clear, standardized theoretical model, this heterodox conclusion including research discrepancies, which should future studies attempt to resolve.
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| Keywords: | Positive modern eugenics, high intelligence, mental illness, genetic engineering, genetic germline editing, human enhancement. | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Christopher Haggarty-Weir | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2024 12:35 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2024 11:55 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 23919 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Biomedical Ethics Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Medicine > Psychiatry |
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| Date: | 18 September 2024 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23919 |
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