Parental authority

Parents have real authority over many decisions about the body their child becomes. The chapter does not dispute it.

It does not include authority to contract the future corridor in directions the future override could not select against. Cosmetic selection — colour, height, build, sex chosen for preference rather than to prevent a sex-linked disease — is refused, whatever the parents’ standing.

Parents can choose the school. They cannot choose the cognitive architecture the child will bring to it. Parents can choose the languages at home. They cannot choose the linguistic architecture the child will develop. Editing is the second kind of decision. The objects are different, so the authority is different.

This is the short edition of Ø Applications — a summary. Where a step is compressed here, the original carries it in full. The original book (PDF) · This edition (PDF)

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