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While I see your point, I have a hard time imagining designer babies will be socially acceptable in the west within this lifetime. I think it’s reasonable to be
by asxd 7y ago
While I see your point, I have a hard time imagining designer babies will be socially acceptable in the west within this lifetime. I think it’s reasonable to believe the usage and research of technology is bounded by societal norms to a significant extent. When it comes to adversarial technology however—and designer babies are arguably not in that group—I can agree with that it’s imperative to understand the tech so that it can be defended against.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoI know that empirically, in terms of what society thinks, you are probably correct, but what is wrong with designer babies? Isn't it the only way we can continue the further improving and developing of the species (instead of making it worse by artifically keeping people with genetic diseases alive and reproducing), at the same time also avoiding the more horrendous parts of natural evolution and selection like genocide, race wars or idiocracy-styled trends of selecting by the dumb metric of sheer number of kids?