liberal eugenics

A named ethical position, coined by Nicholas Agar in 1998 and expanded in a 2004 book, that grounds genetic choice in individual parental autonomy rather than centralized state direction — explicitly framed as a way to avoid the "repugnant consequences" associated with historical, state-directed eugenics programs.

Matters to this vault as the exact label Jonathan Anomaly uses to defend Heliospect Genomics' AI-driven embryo-IQ-ranking service, and as a term with a traceable philosophical genealogy: this vault first met it in Anomaly's own mouth (2026-09-05), and only on a second pass (2026-09-07) learned it predates him by nearly three decades, tracing conceptually back to Robert Nozick's 1974 "genetic supermarket."

References

• claim-agar-1998-coined-liberal-eugenics-for-autonomy-based-genetic-choice
• claim-nozick-genetic-supermarket-anticipates-agar-liberal-eugenics-anomaly-heliospect-lineage
• claim-heliospect-genomics-used-ai-polygenic-scoring-to-rank-embryos-by-iq