With all due respect, if this is what you really believe, then you should read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Once scientists begin cloning animal 'parts' for testing purposes, what's to stop them from growing human parts to use for testing. And then, how do you decide when you're testing on a human, and when you're not. An assembly line of growing animal parts is scary enough. An assembly line of growing human parts really gives me the willies.
As with your last point, analyzing a yield of embryos, and terminating those deemed to be imperfect seems to me to be pretty unethical. What sort of very intelligent people would we be losing if this were done. Would Stephen Hawking have been deemed imperfect and terminated?
And then what do you do with your race of perfect people, when some imperfect people are introduced because they slipped through the system as an embryo? Do you set them up as a race of slaves? Send them to work in factories where they can't hurt anyone. In many places on Earth today, people are discriminated against, but this would only be worse if a race of 'more perfect' humans was created and a couple bad eggs slipped through.
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With all due respect, if this is what you really believe, then you should read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
Once scientists begin cloning animal 'parts' for testing purposes, what's to stop them from growing human parts to use for testing. And then, how do you decide when you're testing on a human, and when you're not. An assembly line of growing animal parts is scary enough. An assembly line of growing human parts really gives me the willies.
As with your last point, analyzing a yield of embryos, and terminating those deemed to be imperfect seems to me to be pretty unethical. What sort of very intelligent people would we be losing if this were done. Would Stephen Hawking have been deemed imperfect and terminated?
And then what do you do with your race of perfect people, when some imperfect people are introduced because they slipped through the system as an embryo? Do you set them up as a race of slaves? Send them to work in factories where they can't hurt anyone. In many places on Earth today, people are discriminated against, but this would only be worse if a race of 'more perfect' humans was created and a couple bad eggs slipped through.