ABSTRACT
According to Feinberg, it is in relation to these 'natural' tendencies that the future options of the child should be kept open. And this is what the right to an open future means in practice. We should work to promote the satisfaction of the child's natural preferences, to strengthen her basic tendencies, and to keep her growth 'natural' (Feinberg, 1992, p.97). The person whose future autonomy should be protected is the biological entity, with her particular set of (inherited) genes, and her open future is to be measured in relation to what her genes have preconditioned her to become.
