[Potential Spoilers] The society of Gattaca not only embraced germ-line modification, it also created a caste system around genetic viability. The main charact

[Potential Spoilers] The society of Gattaca not only embraced germ-line modification, it also created a caste system around genetic viability. The main character was unable to pursue his chosen field because the society decided that people in that field needed to be genetically tailored for that field. I think our moves toward creating a more pluralized society, where people that have been historically deemed "genetically inferior" (the disabled, non-white people, trans people, women) have made slow and steady gains, are such that erasing that progress would require more changes to society than simply allowing genetic modification. Genetic engineering an easy scapegoat, a slippery-slope argument that lets us jump too fast to the dystopic ending of our choice. A storyline that reduces societal, intra-personal progress to individual genetic choices is missing a big chunk of the puzzle.