RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 5, 2017 at 10:35 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2017 at 10:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You can ask that with a straight face, lol? 
If there's money to be made in it, money will be made. It;s hard to imagine a product that people would pay more for, than designer spawn. There's -already- a market for it, all of sexual selection provides the backdrop.
The alternative is that this fantastically valuable service is offered, from the outset, free of charge to everyone everywhere - that's the only way to avoid the worst case scenario. A wonderful tech, sure, but also pandoras box.
Consider a hypothetical in which a government does earmark billions in order to pay for engineering in human children. Are those billions likely to go to the poor in ghettos, or the military? To couples with terrible heritable diseases, or strong political connections?
If there's money to be made in it, money will be made. It;s hard to imagine a product that people would pay more for, than designer spawn. There's -already- a market for it, all of sexual selection provides the backdrop.
The alternative is that this fantastically valuable service is offered, from the outset, free of charge to everyone everywhere - that's the only way to avoid the worst case scenario. A wonderful tech, sure, but also pandoras box.
Consider a hypothetical in which a government does earmark billions in order to pay for engineering in human children. Are those billions likely to go to the poor in ghettos, or the military? To couples with terrible heritable diseases, or strong political connections?
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