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

[The Grand Nudger]

I would have thought it would be implicit from the beginning. I mean, just because your best genes are active, doesn't mean they're going to recombine in the ideal way if you fuck someone, so I figured all reproduction would be done in that manner anyway. If you want the ideal genes, you can't trust your sperm and egg to figure that shit out on their own. So I thought it would go without saying that both the pseudo-sterility and monitored, lab-controlled gene-regulating reproduction would go without saying under that kind of system, and we'd all be better off for it.

I mean, that's basically how it was on Krypton in Man of Steel. Didn't seem very problematic.

Ish, you could..especially if the editing was expensive, seek out another identically edited person, and do this throughout generations.  Basically the same way we came up with our current agricultural cultivars.  At some point, you'd have a commonly expressed trait that you could reliably breed without paying for it.

I don't know that we'd be better off for it, personally....we have our history and current state of affairs in gmo's to refer to on that count, but it -would- be much more profitable.  

Krypton did get blown up, right?  

(On the realz, though, the minute we've totally abandoned our own reproductive autonomy we've become livestock. Property of whomever owns the lab, whoever holds the patent. That;s not to say we won;t become better specimens on account of it, or that the owners can't manage our population better than we can. Obviously, that's what happens to livestock. Better genetics, better management.)