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Unexplainable

Superbabies?

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Parents are supposed to provide the best life possible for their kids, right? But what does that mean when genetic testing for the baby enters the picture? And how far should they go? Vox senior reporter Sigal Samuel received that ethically ambiguous question for her advice column Your Mileage May Vary  from a parent-to-be, and in this episode walks Noam through her thinking using a philosophical framework. For show transcripts, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unxtranscripts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ For more, go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/unexplainable⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ And please email us! ⁠⁠⁠unexplainable@vox.com⁠⁠⁠ We read every email. Support Unexplainable (and get ad-free episodes) by becoming a Vox Member today: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠vox.com/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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your partners vendors and customers all in one place take us us on home, Ashley from Carraway. If we did have Slack tomorrow, I would explode. Well, let's not let that happen. Visit Slack.com slash podcast to get 50% of Slack Business Plus. I am someone who is a little bit obsessed with always trying to do the right thing.

1:15.6

That's Vox reporter, Segal Samuel.

1:17.9

Not just like the good thing, but the most good thing.

1:21.0

And I just found in the past few years that that was really making me kind of pretty unhappy.

1:25.8

Like it was torturing me somewhat.

1:28.9

Because often it's just impossible to optimize moral life, and it's exhausting and misery-inducing to try.

1:38.0

Seagall needed a way out. So she decided to start an advice column, something she thought could help her with her own ethical

1:45.9

dilemmas. Seagal's column is called, Your Mileage May Vary. And it's pretty untraditional for an

1:52.6

advice column, because it's oriented around this particular philosophical idea called

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