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Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
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RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
(August 8, 2017 at 4:14 pm)bennyboy Wrote: By making babies that fit what we WANT them to be, we are likely to decrease diversity, harming the species' genetic fitness.  Whether we care more about the general principle of evolution than our baby growing to be a tall, blue-eyed, big-dicked genius or whatever is a matter of philosophical distinction.

I guess it will be like this-- everyone will want everyone ELSE'S babies to be normal, but will secretly attempt  to gain genetic privilege for their own.

I don't think genetic diversity would be much of an issue. On one hand if we can truly master gene editing, we won't have to be dependent on the natural diversity of our gene pool, and on the other, we will kind of get a huge diversity cause we won't be adapting to various portions of the same rock rather we can adapt to all of the planets in the universe, and I imagine someone adapted to mars' environment would be quite different from someone adapted to europa
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RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad? - by Aoi Magi - August 8, 2017 at 6:43 pm

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