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bermuDa · 01-20-2004, 08:58 PM

I don't want to see a world like Gattaca where IVF leads to designer babies and "enhancing" genetic attributes, where natural babies are second class citizens (or Brave New World, where natural humans are "savages").

This may not happen immediately but letting people choose their embryo is a step in that direction. It'll start out with choosing the sex and selecting for embryos not susceptible to genetic disease, and then it'll be selecting against low IQs, or blindness, or deafness, or small breasts, or dark hair, or brown eyes; where do we draw the line? The progression of the species relies on random combinations, but this unnatural selection is neutering the process of natural evolution.

I say you do your best with what you're given, both as a child and as a parent.

01-20-2004, 08:58 PM	#34 (permalink)
bermuDa don't ignore this--> Location: CA	I don't want to see a world like Gattaca where IVF leads to designer babies and "enhancing" genetic attributes, where natural babies are second class citizens (or Brave New World, where natural humans are "savages"). This may not happen immediately but letting people choose their embryo is a step in that direction. It'll start out with choosing the sex and selecting for embryos not susceptible to genetic disease, and then it'll be selecting against low IQs, or blindness, or deafness, or small breasts, or dark hair, or brown eyes; where do we draw the line? The progression of the species relies on random combinations, but this unnatural selection is neutering the process of natural evolution. I say you do your best with what you're given, both as a child and as a parent. __________________ I am the very model of a moderator gentleman.