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UK Report Suggests Designer Offspring
chromakey writes "Several news agencies are reporting that the UK is considering allowing parents undergoing fertility treatment to select the sex of their unborn babies." Also covered in Q&A format by the BBC. From the article: "At the moment in the UK, sex selection is only permitted if there are strict medical reasons. This could be because there is a serious sex-linked disorder in the family, such as Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy."
Why worry? If they are British they won't be looking for women.
That isn't a problem, but a natural correction to the grotesque overpopulation of useless eaters in less-developed nations. Homosexuality will allow them pleasure, and the population reduction will reduce the social pressure of having so many poor people without jobs.
And I hate to admit this.
But science is truly ruining the human race.
Look at steroids. Look at caffeine. Look at Prozac.
Steroids make super-strong, super-angry men.
Caffeine gives people difficulty sleeping and then tricks them into thinking they need it again in the morning after only getting 5 hours of sleep.
Prozac was part of the cause of the recent Native Indian school shooting in the USA. It's a dangerous drug.
I did some research in bioethics and it's scary. We're slowly killing the human race.
Science and technology, once thought to always be good, are now being realized for their true worth and ability -- ability to kill off the human race.
I fear for the future. It's probably one of the reasons I fool around at work all day and read Slashdot and don't take girls seriously.
I just don't see Earth working out. It's too bad really cause we've had a good run.
Products like Linux, Apple... this stuff is so cool and I love it. But then we have nuclear weapons, China, Bush admin, Pfizer, Geico, Microsoft, etc. trying to mess things up.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
Great point about bioethics and how we have to be careful with every advancement we make not just "innovate" without thinking of the consequences.
Reminds me of sci-fi movies.