RE: Eugenics/Designer-babies... is the concept really that bad?
August 10, 2017 at 5:49 pm
(This post was last modified: August 10, 2017 at 5:54 pm by Alex K.)
(August 10, 2017 at 12:14 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(August 10, 2017 at 12:05 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: It starts with editing out disease genes, then you have mandatory sterilize the people carrying the disease to protect the gene pool, insurance cost reduction, the common good etc.
This is quiiiite a leap.
If editing out diseases is commonplace, why would rabid eugenicists still want to force-sterilize people? It seems to me like the capability of editing out undesirable traits in the germ line would drastically reduce any support for the inhuman brute force approach. As misguided as they may be, eugenics proponents don't automatically want to hurt people unnecessarily. At least I don't see how it would follow from gene editing capability that people get sterilized.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
