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===Ethics=== Status quo bias may be responsible for much of the opposition to human enhancement in general and to genetic cognitive enhancement in particular.<ref name="BostromOrd2006" /> Some ethicists argue, however, that status quo bias may not be irrational in such cases.<ref>{{cite journal | last= Nebel | first = Jacob | year = 2015 | title = Status Quo Bias, Rationality, and Conservatism about Value | journal = Ethics | volume = 125 | issue = 2 | pages = 449β476 | doi= 10.1086/678482| s2cid = 145343964 |url=http://philpapers.org/rec/NEBSQB}}</ref> The rationality of status quo bias is also an important question in the ethics of disability.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Wasserman | first= David| year= 2015 | title= Disability, Diversity, and Preference for the Status Quo: Bias or Justifiable Preference? | journal = American Journal of Bioethics | volume = 15 | issue = 6 | pages = 11β12 | doi=10.1080/15265161.2015.1028676| pmid= 26030485| s2cid= 40673361| url= https://zenodo.org/record/1234505}}</ref>
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