Yeah. The gateway drug here is chronic and intractable pain. I am reminded of Blade Runner: "You were made as well as we could make you." "But not to last."

Yeah. The gateway drug here is chronic and intractable pain. I am reminded of Blade Runner: "You were made as well as we could make you." "But not to last." After a kid or two, you've done what evolution has selected for, and if walloping amounts of suffering and disability appear after that, well, there's always the next batch. Nobody wants to look too hard at that. People's squeamishness about genetic engineering has always had a whiff of the ignorable about it. It's pretty fun to pat yourself on the back about avoiding "eugenics" when you're healthy and young. I suppose we could go the animal husbandry approach and just license reproductive age, pushing it steadily up and creating an artificial evolutionary pressure to keep people healthy at greater and greater ages.