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If some neo nazis wants to make sure their child had blonde hair and blue eyes, a personal trainer and olympic athlete want their child to have denser bones and

If some neo nazis wants to make sure their child had blonde hair and blue eyes, a personal trainer and olympic athlete want their child to have denser bones and be tall, and a Harry Potter fan fiction writer and her dungeon master boyfriend want their kid to have pointy ears, then WHO THE FUCK CARES?! Like the people claiming that we're, "playing god," weren't going to be against this shit regardless. The best defense against bullshit regulations by busy bodies is to get ordinary people excited about this, not to grovel and cower in fear. Bring on the future!

jerf 11y ago
"If some neo nazis wants to make sure their child had blonde hair and blue eyes, a personal trainer and olympic athlete want their child to have denser bones and be tall, and a Harry Potter fan fiction writer and her dungeon master boyfriend want their kid to have pointy ears, then WHO THE FUCK CARES?!" Strawman. For better or worse, far more things are on the table than that, if gene manipulation becomes practical. We have to live with the results of the genetic tinkering, and not all the things that could be done are anywhere near that neutral.
- andrewclunn 11y ago
  Oh, so "slippery slope" then. See, I can throw out logical fallacies like they're candy too.
  - jerf 11y ago
    That's not thinking, that's an attempt to stop thinking. We already know things we can do that would be far more interesting and dangerous to live with, if we just had control over genes. If all that we could do is make "a tall person", there'd be no debate. Your brain is probably recoiling from the possibilities, because you simply can't accept them, and reaching for denial and bad humor in an attempt to cover it over, but that's going to be really, really dangerous in the near future. You'd better look reality in the face instead of trying to mock it or it'll blindside you, and the same goes for our regulators and bioethicists.

jerf 11y ago

"If some neo nazis wants to make sure their child had blonde hair and blue eyes, a personal trainer and olympic athlete want their child to have denser bones and be tall, and a Harry Potter fan fiction writer and her dungeon master boyfriend want their kid to have pointy ears, then WHO THE FUCK CARES?!" Strawman. For better or worse, far more things are on the table than that, if gene manipulation becomes practical. We have to live with the results of the genetic tinkering, and not all the things that could be done are anywhere near that neutral.

andrewclunn 11y ago
Oh, so "slippery slope" then. See, I can throw out logical fallacies like they're candy too.
- jerf 11y ago
  That's not thinking, that's an attempt to stop thinking. We already know things we can do that would be far more interesting and dangerous to live with, if we just had control over genes. If all that we could do is make "a tall person", there'd be no debate. Your brain is probably recoiling from the possibilities, because you simply can't accept them, and reaching for denial and bad humor in an attempt to cover it over, but that's going to be really, really dangerous in the near future. You'd better look reality in the face instead of trying to mock it or it'll blindside you, and the same goes for our regulators and bioethicists.