Someone might think that it’s fine to try to inculcate in children desirable traits, such as responsibility or intellectual curiosity, if this is done through education or parental influence, but it would be wrong to use HHGE for the exact same purpose even if HHGE were shown to be effective and safe; HHGE would determine the child’s make-up in a way that environmental forces, including education, do not. Thus, HHGE would restrict the child’s choices in a way that education does not.
