Genetically modified .... humans

[bennyboy]

I once took a genetics class and the teacher pointed out that we've been modifying genes since the days where we figured out how to make those little grasses grow bigger until they became the wheat we know and love today, and that, honestly, it's more than a little hypocritical to be against it only when we've figured out how to do it directly.

We've controlled evolutionary pressures and even selection, but that's different than assembling your own Frankengenes from scratch.

I'm not against it, mind you.  I just don't think it's necessarily the same thing.