Your argument is moot. Using it one could argue that the use of condoms has prevented the birth of many geniuses (as if those people have more right to live, but that's another point). While this might be true (how can it ever be tested?) should the use of condoms be banned?. I don't think so.
Even if parents decided to kill every odd child (to mention an arbitrary reason) our society probably wouldn't look much different (ethics aside).
Misconseptions (according to my humble self) about science:
- Science should never be fun - Science should only be done to research solutions for Bad Things (tm) - Science should only research things that are Morally Acceptable (tm) - Science should not Play God (tm) - Science should only do things that will definately work.
So some people want to try to breed (if we knew more about the process probably call 'build') a nice woolly mammoth. So? It's fun, it's no solution to any world desease, it's not morally acceptable (I'm sure people would find some ethic reasons against it), it is playing God (He's doing this all the time, isn't He?) and it might even not work.
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Interesting to see that an ethical matter like this one isn't really discussed by the people here. Lots of posts, hardly any replies.
In our quest to be political correct, we sometimes forget to think for ourselves (or learn from others, for that matter).
Your argument is moot. Using it one could argue that the use of condoms has prevented the birth of many geniuses (as if those people have more right to live, but that's another point). While this might be true (how can it ever be tested?) should the use of condoms be banned?. I don't think so.
Even if parents decided to kill every odd child (to mention an arbitrary reason) our society probably wouldn't look much different (ethics aside).
Misconseptions (according to my humble self) about science:
- Science should never be fun
- Science should only be done to research solutions for Bad Things (tm)
- Science should only research things that are Morally Acceptable (tm)
- Science should not Play God (tm)
- Science should only do things that will definately work.
So some people want to try to breed (if we knew more about the process
probably call 'build') a nice woolly mammoth. So? It's fun, it's no
solution to any world desease, it's not morally acceptable (I'm sure
people would find some ethic reasons against it), it is playing God
(He's doing this all the time, isn't He?) and it might even not work.
Go for it, I'd say!