Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?

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All I can think of is, we have purebred dogs that are more likely to have health problems than mutts, because desirable traits cause problems down the road. So what makes us think it will work better with Humans than it does dogs?

Because we're only working with what genes are already there. Tinkering with genes in the way we're describing would enable us to introduce new ones or activate long-dormant other ones that would otherwise never happen via recombination through simple breeding. For instance, we might have some shark genes put in because they have some kind of crazy powerful immune systems, supposedly. Dogs can't get that from fucking.

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pool the matey
What if you buy your kid that is a version 1.0 but after 2 years they release version 2.0?

Will you

a) sell your kid on ebay
b) ship your kid to the company for software updation
c) throw your kid out and just get the newer better model
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Considering that in this scenario, you yourself would be version 0.0, you might need to revise your line of questioning. But it would depend on just how different the genetic augmentations were between the first generation and the next. Maybe they'd still both be able to compete as far as jobs go on an even footing, if the newer augmentations weren't what affects intelligence more significantly than the older generation's. But there's no way one generation would be rendered completely 'useless' in a society where everyone's getting varying levels of enhancement. Only that very last generation of those born before the advent of it would be unable to compete, most likely, so, unlikely as it may be, it could be hoped that most people will have the Professor X mentality about it and not the Magneto mentality.