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Indrid Cold
Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7918296.stm
Have I mentioned that I consider Gattaca to be the scariest movie ever made?
Have I mentioned that I consider Gattaca to be the scariest movie ever made?
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So, so, wrong. It upsets me too much to even think about it rationally.
There is already scanning for genetic defects, that article was mentioning choosing the eye and hair colour and sex of your children, def not a cool thing...
I know that it's hard for parents to bring a child with additional support needs into the world, but I don't think that means that they should choose not to.
It'd hard to pinpoint, but there's just something very unsettling about this.
Well with China's one child policy has already shown what problems you get picking one sex over another. The egender balance in the world would eb seriously skewed to many more males than females for starters.
Also even though i don't disagree with abortion the idea of having a designer baby and destroying all the rest cos you don't like their eye colour seems a bit morally repugnant.
Also for most people this smacks of Hitler's plans for eugenics.
Would you have problems with pet stores destroying half the animals they get in just cos they're not this season's colour?
It seems you dont quite grasp the fact that this is not about culling people whom already exist, its little blobs of cells under a microscope..hardly genocide.
As for the 'more of one sex' argument, i agree this could be an issue but with proper control it could be overcome pretty easily. Limiting numbers to keep things even possibly.
"With proper control"?? Sounds like dictatorship to me. I'd rather live in a country with no dictatorship or designer babies, thanks.
There is nothing natural about any medical treatment, cosmetics, plastic surgery etc. either; natural doesn't equate to "good" or "right".
Personally I've got nothing against this and am strongly in favour of sex selection for both social and medical reasons. I think allowing people who can afford private IVF treatment, and have/want to go through the discomfort and unpleasant experience of IVF, to select certain traits in their children, is completely fine. It isn't like we're all going to be doing it any time soon, and most of us wouldn't want to anyway. Hardly the start of the slippery slope...
If the world does end up as some utopian society then good! I think you're all just secretly scared that this will create a load of children that grow up to be smarter, healthier and more athletic than your own kids.
Whats really so bad about creating 'personalised babies'? Putting a limit on the number of boys to girls ratio say per year (first come first served? - or put on a waiting list until next year) is hardly dictatorship, and if you still think it is so then you probably think the same about every single law a country holds. (not allowed cocaine? pfft..dictatorship!!)
it is actually the same general goal, as it presumes there's a need for ideal children when in fact, life isn't ideal and people aren't ideal, what is ideal can be quite distorted, and that if this becomes commonplace even more traits will be selected for. What if someone choosing to not have this done get blamed for beign a drain on resources by a government etc
utopias are like dreams, not everyone has the same idea of a dream, it can in fact be a nightmare for them when in fact it becomes a dystopia
well people like to copy and mimic eachother, if lots of people started having it done, it would lead to people even if not directly being seen as subhuman for not being good enough, when in all reality there are some amazingly clever and athletic people who are complete tosspots, and there are lovable or athletic idiots and clever caring disabled people and everything in between
being different yet seeign past it is what makes us human
and i haven't even started on the commodification of children, they should be loved by their parents for whom they are regardless (unless they try to kill their parents, and even then some still forgive cause it's that powerful) - especially as most genetic traits that confer one advantage seem to inflict a disadvantage in another form since genetics isn't actually THAT well understood, especially how one gene affects multiple functions like how one drug has many effects
just no...
If that also refers to my aryan comment I was being sarcastic.
Especially as the aryans are Indian...