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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17591)	6/30/2001 10:25:52 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

"If we can produce better babies, there will likely come a time when it will be declasse if not downright wrong to knowingly produce obviously defective ones." You mean of course childhood diseases. In the future instead of legislating morality we will instead engineer it. That is wrong, that is why some things must be held sacred and not tampered with. The greatest advances in warfare come from the same priesthood that is now pushing genetic alteration and sex selection. Now let's see... if we just reduce the size of that pesky frontal lobe for a few generations, breed it out, I wonder, hmmmmmm. Maybe save your experiments for The Island.

To: Lane3 who wrote (17591)	6/30/2001 11:39:02 AM
From: Greg or e	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Thanks for the link Karen, I'll have to have a boo at it later. If history is any indication at all, then we had better be very careful before we start playing eugenics. We can't even mange something as simple as introducing new fish into an eco system without screwing it up. Lofty goals like reducing disease can easily be turned into a quest for a master race, especially since we have already rejected any concept of ultimate responsibility. There are simply no binding guiding principals to inform this. If we are going to cull all non perfect embryos why should we stop there? Perhaps we should sterilize all non perfect adults and prevent them from breeding future non perfect offspring. All those non perfect babies that slipped through should be simply put down, like the dogs they are. After all they are so expensive to keep and they can't possibly bring anyone joy. Then there are all those non perfect thinkers, those close minded types, we might as well get rid of them while we're at it, no? Who gets to be the arbiter of perfection anyway? Should everyone have blue eyes and blond hair? What if the Iranians get this technology first, will everyone have dark hair and olive skin? We could end up like ants or bees, with worker drones, half human half ape for heavy lifting. Who knows? These things seem extreme but who's going to police it?