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

To: Greg or e who wrote (17602)	6/30/2001 1:06:18 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

Who gets to be the arbiter of perfection anyway? That's a key point of the article. We are either free to make individual decisions, within the framework of technical possibilities, about the features we want in our embryos or society legislates either a prohibition or the perfect features. Society has already decided that it's unethical for the government to decide which people and which features get reproduced. That leaves us with either a government prohibition or myriad individual decisions. Even if your government or mine prohibited, there would still be places that wouldn't, so I think it's pretty inevitable. Karen