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Designer Babies
Singularity Hub writes "The Fertility Institutes recently stunned the fertility community by being the first company to boldly offer couples the opportunity to screen their embryos not only for diseases and gender, but also for completely benign characteristics such as eye color, hair color, and complexion. The Fertility Institutes proudly claims this is just the tip of the iceberg, and plans to offer almost any conceivable customization as science makes them available. Even as couples from across the globe are flocking in droves to pay the company their life's savings for a custom baby, opponents are vilifying the company for shattering moral and ethical boundaries. Like it or not, the era of designer babies is officially here and there is no going back."
One of my top 10 favorites of all time; it still holds up.
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Nice straw man you got there.
Go on.
The truth is that names hardly matter that much
Oh Really?
In some countries, it's not uncommon for parents to kill girls that are born to them because they cannot carry on the family name
Shit, that kinda sounds like names are really important.
This has to be Slashdot at it's finest.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Docile, big tittied blond, brunette and redhead. High sexual proclivity low IQ and fast maturing.
It's not embryos being aborted, it's embryos not being implanted
And how is that any different?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
> This is NOT FUCKING EUGENICS
Yes it is. Hitler used the tools at his disposal in an attempt to use science to 'improve the breed.' We have better tools now, that is all. And we have exactly the same problem HItler had, who decides what is an improvement? He thought making everyone super pure 'Aryans' would be an improvement since he believed they had the atributes he valued. Now we will have asshole yuppies making the decision as to what genetic traits are valuable; maybe that is an improvement but is it verboten to even ask the question?
> Please don't use the word "eugenics" since the only accepted definition of the word
> references a truly abhorrent behavior that should never be approved of,
You might want to read some non-government school approved history. All 'right thinking people' were all for Eugenics, not just the Nazis. Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood on Eugenic theory, specifically that if she could reduce reproduction among/abort the children of the inferior races that it would improve humanity by removing useless people. And to this day you will find PP operating mostly in 'inner cities' which is code for 'we abort niggers.' Something I'd expect David Duke to be in favor of, kinda suprising to see the whole Progressive movement praising em though.
Hitler did the world a backhanded favor by making the word Eugenics and anything associated with it taboo for several generations. Doesn't appear we used the time to reconsider though, now the Nazis are safely in the past and we again speed headlong into the Progressive Future!
Democrat delenda est
I shouldnt, but I do, find the hypocrisy of the intellectual elite startling. On one hand, our "science oriented" peers will sit and debate what is becoming the blurring line of "what life is" and then on the other hand state that a fetus is not a person. A fetus is a person as much as a 120 year old Alzheimer's patient. They are just in different stages of human development. I use the comparison between Alzheimer's patients and a fetus for two very particular reasons: Lack of awareness, and lack of self sustainment. Neither could survive without support from someone else, but neither are less human. Both have the potential to be a major drag on another person, or to be a gift, or neither.
Of course, you will have those who are cavalier about euthanisation, but those people are just a joke (I've got to watch people like that beg for help and cry for mommy when death stared them in the face). For a large majority of the cases of abortion, the decision simply boils down to a matter of convenience. How will this child impact my life. If negative, kill it, if positive, keep it. Or those who will suffer it for the sake of the preservation of life.
Ironically, those very same people who often chose abortion for convenience are the same people who will choose nanny state socialism (Democrats). If you cant understand the irony, it would just take too long to explain.
20th century Marxism is not progress...