Genetic engineering sounds like a good idea, but then again so did thalidomide, and we all know how huge a mistake that was. "Over specialization breeds in weakness." If Most of the human race shares a large percentage of their genetic material then a single pathogen could kill off most if not all of the human population on this planet. For an example I present Elms, how many do you see around to day, not many, most were wiped out by one pathogen, one. The only ones the survived were the ones too far away from another tree to be infected. My advice to anybody even considering this option for their children is: be wary of things that sound too good to be true, they usually are.
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Genetic engineering sounds like a good idea, but then again so did thalidomide, and we all know how huge a mistake that was. "Over specialization breeds in weakness." If Most of the human race shares a large percentage of their genetic material then a single pathogen could kill off most if not all of the human population on this planet. For an example I present Elms, how many do you see around to day, not many, most were wiped out by one pathogen, one. The only ones the survived were the ones too far away from another tree to be infected. My advice to anybody even considering this option for their children is: be wary of things that sound too good to be true, they usually are.