Customize your own Baby

[whiteboy2345]

Is it wrong to do that?

If you chose weight training as your elective four years in a row in High School and developed a lot of physical strength, played brain games every night to sharpen your intelligence, and just happened to be born attractive, is it wrong to want your child to inherit all the traits you worked for and or were born with?

My Biology teacher at school was talking about how terrible it would be if everyone could make their own super-baby.

 

[King Richard]

No it is not wrong, it is evident that we humans have ascended to higher heights in knowledge and technology, we have surpassed our predecessors.

 

[whiteboy2345]

No it is not wrong, it is evident that we humans have ascended to higher heights in knowledge and technology, we have surpassed our predecessors.

You don't see any contingent threats from doing this?

I wouldn't mind it if it were hidden from the majority of people.

 

[Nobel]

The result won't be human.

 

[Sagebee]

If I don't like what I get can I get a refund

 

[Exaar]

You fuck with nature, It fucks with you.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

 

[Punk Hazard]

You fuck with nature, It fucks with you.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Why shouldn't we in this case?

 

[Kazehime Seirin]

I think that you should love your baby no matter what. :scorps: Flaws and all

 

[whiteboy2345]

Why shouldn't we in this case?

Fair point, but I've only wanted this limited for diseases. The last thing we need is a bunch of blue eyed people trying to wipe out brown eyed people just because.

 

[CloyEscapade]

You fuck with nature, It fucks with you.

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

We're already doing it with CRISPR

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

You are dictating the life of your child. Yes, that is wrong.

If you give people the power to choose their children's fates, you will end up with a lot of freaks of nature and unhappy people because there are a lot of shitty people out there. If it was limited to height in a given range, eye colour, hair colour, it would be fine, but I'd imagine, a lot of gross classism, competitiveness, etc involved.

 

[kimb]

I did a thesis on genetic modification a few months ago and after doing the research I think GM is the next step in human evolution. Aside from the physiological changes, people will able to remove genetic defects and disease in embryos, like cystic fibrosis and Huntington's, along with granting newborns with genetic immunity to contractible diseases. The immunity also becomes a genetic trait, so it can be passed down from parent to offspring, meaning that viral diseases and common life threatening disease will eventually phase out over generations of humans.

Customizable babies will be the future of humanity.

 

[Pumpkin Ninja]

I think that you should love your baby no matter what. :scorps: Flaws and all

Exactly, a lot of shitty parents can barely treat their own children the same. Giving them more choice gives them reason to not have to accept people for who they are. This will lead to a lot of less empathy in the world, imo.

And this is assuming genetic modification won't be used for perverse reasons like trying to make inhuman things, failed testings and everything.

We always have to be critical about new technology,if we're not, things could be bad.

 

[King Richard]

You don't see any contingent threats from doing this?

I wouldn't mind it if it were hidden from the majority of people.

What threat exists?

 

[King Richard]

You fuck with nature, It fucks with you.

Ignorance.

 

[whiteboy2345]

I did a thesis on genetic modification a few months ago and after doing the research I think GM is the next step in human evolution. Aside from the physiological changes, people will able to remove genetic defects and disease in embryos, like cystic fibrosis and Huntington's, along with granting newborns with genetic immunity to contractible diseases. The immunity also becomes a genetic trait, so it can be passed down from parent to offspring, meaning that viral diseases and common life threatening disease will eventually phase out over generations of humans.

Customizable babies will be the future of humanity.

Reasonable.

 

[Nobel]

I did a thesis on genetic modification a few months ago and after doing the research I think GM is the next step in human evolution. Aside from the physiological changes, people will able to remove genetic defects and disease in embryos, like cystic fibrosis and Huntington's, along with granting newborns with genetic immunity to contractible diseases. The immunity also becomes a genetic trait, so it can be passed down from parent to offspring, meaning that viral diseases and common life threatening disease will eventually phase out over generations of humans.

Customizable babies will be the future of humanity.

That's not evolution. It's called toying with life, and a customized human is a fake organism.

 

[whiteboy2345]

That's not evolution. It's called toying with life, and a customized human is a fake organism.

No it's not. If I can choose for my baby to have blue eyes, it's still real because that baby can only have blue eyes because of me or it's mother, I can't select traits for the baby that I myself or it's mother do not have.

Stopping a child from inheriting a painful disease isn't toying with life, it's the same thing as curing the disease.

 

[roark]

cuztomizing a baby would just create an unecessary elite. People who has money will be without flaws and is creepy to control your children fate. This remember that super men universe - can't remember the name. Or the nazi ideology.

 

[kimb]

That's not evolution. It's called toying with life, and a customized human is a fake organism.

That's your opinion. Scientist and geneticists refer to genetic modification as an evolution. Even trans-humanism, the process in which science and technology is integrated into human biology is referred to as a type of evolution. Yes, the change that causes the evolution is manufactured and artificial, but that doesn't make any less evolution than primates evolving into humans. Evolution is not concerned with the catalyst, but the change itself.