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Due to the intense debate, the editors of the journal decided to give Sorgner the chance to react to the articles.<ref name="Blackford 2010b">{{cite web | last=Blackford | first=Russell | title = Editorial |year = 2010 |url = http://jetpress.org/v21/blackford2.htm|website=jetpress.org |access-date=2011-01-27}}</ref> In vol. 21 Issue 2 – October 2010, Sorgner replied to the various responses in his article "Beyond Humanism: Reflections on Trans- and Posthumanism".<ref name="Sorgner 2010">{{cite web | last=Sorgner | first=Stefan Lorenz | authorlink = Stefan Lorenz Sorgner |title = Beyond Humanism: Reflections on Trans- and Posthumanism |year = 2010 |url = http://jetpress.org/v21/sorgner.htm|website=jetpress.org |access-date=2011-01-27}}</ref>
Going back to Bostrom's criticism of Nietzsche
Sorgner also criticized what Habermas had said about the difference between education and genetic engineering. According to Habermas, genetic manipulation would be very different from education due to its irreversibility.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur. Auf dem Weg zu einer liberalen Eugenik? |trans-title=The future of human nature. Towards liberal eugenics?|last=Habermas |first=Jürgen |publisher=Suhrkamp |location=Frankfurt am Main |date=2001 |pages=91–100 |language=de}}</ref> Sorger disputed both that the outcomes of education could always be modified by children, and that genetic modifications were always irreversible, as demonstrated by developments, above all, in the field of [[epigenetics]].<ref name="Sorgner 2010" />
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