RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 5, 2017 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2017 at 11:12 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 5, 2017 at 10:51 am)Mermaid Wrote: People can want and be willing to pay for a lot of medical procedures, that doesn't mean they will be able to access it. Of course there are a lot of medical ethics questions involved. That's true for almost everything in medicine, though.
Sure, there could be a shortage of a drug or of providers, but money -is- access. It's true that there are ethics questions involved in all of medicine, though, in the case of designer babies, more difficult ones than in the case of vaccinations or stitches. Engineered human beings would be in a class all their own, not just as human beings, but as ethical problems. Awesome tech, incredible potential, for better or for worse. Personally, I think it;s a good idea...but I'm pretty sure the first we'll see of it on any large scale is rich kids and bred soldiers. Unless we suddenly become much better people than we are, ofc.
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