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In his recent Beyond Humanity? (2011)\, Allen Buchanan takes issue with a slew of arguments against human enhancement put forward by prominent conservative intellectuals. For the most part I find Buchanan&rsquo\;s dissection of conservative opposition to human enhancement to be very persuasive. In this paper I want to discuss Buchanan&rsquo\;s treatment of the conservative line of argument against human enhancement &lsquo\;from biological and social harmony&rsquo\; (Buchanan 2011\, pp. 161-2). In my view this line of argument against human enhancement has much more going for it than Buchanan allows. I will not argue that it is a strong enough to warrant the banning of the use of all human enhancement technologies\, as many conservatives (and some liberals) might urge\, but I will argue that it gives us reason to be very cautious about the widespread adoption of particular human enhancements. I will also demonstrate that there is nothing distinctively conservative about this line of argument. It deserves to be taken seriously by both liberals and conservatives.

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