Designer Babies - The Wave of the Future?
My main concern, though, is of a moral perspective. Is there an ethical divide between preventing disease and enhancing attributes? Where do we draw the line? I can see understand the argument of trying to prevent disease by selecting certain traits, but what about selecting a baby because of personal preference? What if selecting traits of a baby causes us to have a discriminatory society? People could select traits based on color and gender, which can then affect the demographics of our society. What if enhanced people discriminate against unenhanced people or people start selecting out dark-skinned or female babies? In the UK, sex selection is banned and choices are currently only permitted according to the baby's health. However, the US has no such rules, as of yet. I don't know...seems very troubling to me.
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Permalink Reply by Mr. Subspencious on -
I agree with you. However, Nature always has its own way of regulating eugenics (more like punishing) those who do things the way nature (or god...or both) intended. Yeah as we both know that the only difference between a genetic disease and adaptation is whether its good or bad. What happens is people have these designer babies, the process becomes affordable. People will get rid of all the "bad traits" then everyone will have the same or similar good traits. And them kids gonna wanna have children and wither they choose to have children naturally or not. They run the risk of developing a diseases which are common amongst inbreeds. Wither or not the children are related....if too many of their "good genes" are the same well...that's all she wrote.
Besides if everyone looked the same, sex would be like sooo boring lol.
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Permalink Reply by Jami Jackson on -
Yea I think so too. We shall see how this baby turns out!!
Mr. Subspencious said:I agree with you. However, Nature always has its own way of regulating eugenics (more like punishing) those who do things the way nature (or god...or both) intended. Yeah as we both know that the only difference between a genetic disease and adaptation is whether its good or bad. What happens is people have these designer babies, the process becomes affordable. People will get rid of all the "bad traits" then everyone will have the same or similar good traits. And them kids gonna wanna have children and wither they choose to have children naturally or not. They run the risk of developing a diseases which are common amongst inbreeds. Wither or not the children are related....if too many of their "good genes" are the same well...that's all she wrote.
Besides if everyone looked the same, sex would be like sooo boring lol.
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Permalink Reply by Sandra C. Jackson on -
I think that the technique should be limited to prevention of genetic defects.
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Permalink Reply by Jami Jackson on
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I think so too!
Sandra C. Jackson said:I think that the technique should be limited to prevention of genetic defects.
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Permalink Reply by Ian on -
I don't like the idea at all. It's like saying that you don't accept the way God planned His gift for you. Being that I plan on being a new father around October, no matter if it's a boy or girl, light-skinned or dark-skinned, brown-eyed or hazel-eyed, my child will always receive my unconditional love. I'm just happy at the fact that I was blessed to be able to make a child and I totally refuse to alter my Lord's plans.
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Permalink Reply by Jami Jackson on
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Wow, that's exciting!! I'd love to see pictures!!!
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