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Deaf by Design: A Business Argument Against Engineering Disabled Offspring

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If Solomon is correct in labeling businesses as community citizens because they “are part and parcel of the communities in which they live and flourish, and the responsibilities that they bear are ... intrinsic to their very existence as social entities,â€\x9D then it follows that other community citizens have reciprocal duties toward them that they, as community citizens, have to any other community citizen. One of these duties is not to harm needlessly another community citizen without its permission. One issue affecting business is genetically engineering children to have characteristics, e.g., deafness, which render them disabled in work environments. Since business is a very large part of society, citizen responsibilities toward it in regard to intentionally creating deaf children should be examined. It is my contention that designing disabled offspring is unethical on the grounds that it causes undue injury to businesses without their permission in any form. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. 2007

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  • Dennis Cooley, 2007. "Deaf by Design: A Business Argument Against Engineering Disabled Offspring," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 71(2), pages 209-227, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jbuset:v:71:y:2007:i:2:p:209-227
    DOI: 10.1007/s10551-006-9135-0
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