tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post117081366918474396..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: Utilitarian Implications of Gamete-SeekingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1171049527332320202007-02-09T11:32:00.000-08:002007-02-09T11:32:00.000-08:00Your analysis from the perspective of the average ...Your analysis from the perspective of the average utilitarian did not account for the fact that some parents would be worse off under the ban (presumably they would be unable to afford children). All things considered, it seems debatable whether the average utilitarian would approve the ban.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1170833060905771572007-02-06T23:24:00.000-08:002007-02-06T23:24:00.000-08:00Perhaps this could be solved by a single-blind sys...Perhaps this could be solved by a single-blind system: Don't tell the child his father's identity, but pay the father to send in biannual medical updates and give the child access to relevant but non-identifying information.<BR/><BR/>This would increase the cost of sperm a great deal, but it probably wouldn't have much of an effect on the total cost of artificial insemination and childbirth.<BR/><BR/>I don't think it would be too hard to design a system that would protect the identities of fathers from all but the most resourceful of unscrupulous sperm bank employees.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-1170829556937346132007-02-06T22:25:00.000-08:002007-02-06T22:25:00.000-08:00I could understand a publicity campaign, ads in sp...I could understand a publicity campaign, ads in sperm donation centers, etc. encouraging sperm donors to donate non-anonymously, and encouraging the women who accept such donations to choose sperm from donors who have donated non-anonymously; but this seems firstly ungrateful to those donors, and secondly to be trampling on mothers' rights: a mother has a right to choose how to raise her child, and that includes the right to choose an unidentifiable sample.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com