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The overriding problem with the above arguments – and the vast majority of those within the anti-enhancement camp – seems to be their propensity to defend humanity by relapsing (potentially duplicitously) into metaphysical fantasy, religious providence and assumptions of the superiority of nature. But while these positions may have the advantage of being: socially intuitive, compatible with secular and theist doctrine and able to provoke emotive, impassioned and proactive responses from the public; they ultimately disintegrate under serious scrutiny.

Taken from K. Mark Smith’s “Saving Humanity? Counter-arguing Posthuman Enhancement” in the Journal of Evolution and Technology (vol 14, 2005). A tremendously good essay.