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Costom made babies
I heard about this and my stomach turns at this.
General overview from different perspectives: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07010905.html http://www.slate.com/id/2157495/ http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=24770 Here a brief story about some buyers: http://www.medindia.net/news/view_ne...p?x=17589&cK=1 Made to order, even with defects: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16299656/ Perhaps my fear of this kind of future keeps me from embracing this sort of thing but movies like Blade Runner & Gattaca came to mind when I heard about this kind of eugenics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Blade Runner is about robots and I don't think Gattaca really had an anti-Eugenics stance in the end, so I can't see how either of those films support your fears.
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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At the end of Gattaca the authors of the movie showed clips of historical figures that had abnormalities that aided in their personal greatness. Such abnormalities would have been discriminated against in the movies eugenics story. What makes me nervous is the basic enslavement of people. Buying and selling people. True they are not made to work fields like my ancestors but their worth is determined by their traits. To me human worth can't have a price. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
I think Brave New World is a bit more appropriate of an example in this case.
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I'm not really against the idea of screening to prevent any potential children suffering from problems that would cause them to not be able to live their life to the full. I am entirely against the idea of screening for hair and eye color, or other such aesthetic details. The idea of children with 'made to order defects' chils me to to the bone, and I personally would question the fitness of parents who ask for such things.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
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I assume that everybody wants their kids to have the best in life what guideline would you use to define what is best for people? What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
As if we didn't have enough trouble with race, nationality, and socioeconomic status... FELIPE NO |
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
The vast majority of humans like to consider themselves to be moral creatures, as judged by whatever code pleases them. This fact would have to change in order for anything you suggest to become reality. I don't think there's any evidence to suggest that those seeking 'custom babies' represent the majority, and I certainly don't believe that the majority possess the capacity to ignore the moral implications. It scarcely seems to matter what moral code such ideas are judged by, because I can't imagine any of them to have sympathy for such a notion.
It's important that you understand that I'm not suggesting that nobody should be stupid, weak, or ugly. I'm not in favour of science providing us with a world filled with genius athletic supermodels. I'm in favour of people not having to endure life with severe physical disabilities, or with a mentality that can never surpass that of a 5-year-old child. These things do happen, and if science can prevent that, then I've yet to hear a convincing argument why it should not. If the tone of this response seems harsh, it is because I perceive that you already have your response prepared. Do you suppose that I've never heard these arguments before? I'm just not willing to admit that it's necessary that we should forego the use of any technological advancement which has the potential to be used in a bad way. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Pardon me for saying this, but what is the moral objection everybody has to screening aesthetic features such as skin color, eye color, hair, etc.?
Think of it this way: If you're a black family, then your kid, no matter what, will run into racism eventually, be it from being denied a loan while a white person of the exact same status financially, socially, and legally being approved one, or from being called out racial epithets. Wouldn't you want to prevent your kid from having to go through that hell? Like it or not, people judge by looks. It's a fact of life, and it will be a fact of life for all of eternity, simply because we are human. Is it a terrible thing to wish your child be allowed to live a life relatively free of such negative judgements? I say that it isn't, simply because such changes do not inherently impact ones' life negatively. God, I am going to look at this tomorrow and wonder what the fuck I was thinking. Hopefully it'll teach me to avoid PP after I've consumed a healthy amount of alcohol. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
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What changed is the overall philosophy of the culture about its view of kids and their relation to a perception of quality of life for individuals. To me, this is just the next step.
I say ban it. One of these days somebody is gonna pay for a blond hair blue eyed kid and get a brown one by mistake. Then there comes the lawsuit for a refund.... This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
If I am not mistaken, something like this idea was already done by some parents of a handicapped child in I believe the northwest. They had their daughter undergo surgery to stunt her growth so that they could more easily handle her when she grows up.
(Forgive me for bringing up something that is already being discussed halfway down the page....hadn't gotten there yet!) Also, this seems to be falling along the same lines as the Peter Singer/infanticide debate. He argues for the good of the many over the good of a few. For example, if a child were to be born handicapped and had to suffer through life and the rest of the family would not be happy because it had to take care of the child and the parents were able to give birth to another happy baby that would not be handicapped then the child should be killed. That was an awful runon sentence but hopefully you got the point. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |