Would you genetically engineer your future child?

[FrostyBoy]

If yes, do you feel like a Nazi?

Is it natural? Is this an evolutionary step foward?

How would you engineer your child?

[Perfection]

Nope, I'd just clone myself because you can't better then Perfection.

[Kuciwalker]

This poll is invalid

[Bkeela]

I would rather genetically engineer a sex slave.

[Bkeela]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
This poll is invalid

Jesus, whenever someone omits the precious banana reference, there is always one conformist who objects.

[LordShiva]

I would genetically engineer Snoopy to be able to post valid polls.

[snoopy369]

Snoopy posts perfectly valid polls. Sn00py, not so much. Stop maligning me

I am all for genetic engineering. I wouldn't do anything fancy, just make sure my child was healthy and had a good immune system, as few as possible cancer-linked genes, etc. I wouldn't do anything to change facial features, height, etc. (unless there were defective height genes or something). A race of 7' people is not interesting to me

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Bkeela


Jesus, whenever someone omits the precious banana reference, there is always one conformist who objects.

Just be glad we don't throw napalm on you, heathen.

[Perfection]

If we get all this tech stuff though instead of having children I'll just enlarge my skull and slap in some more brains. I'd look funny but man I'd be smart.

[FrostyBoy]

The banana thing is stupid, just like people's fascination for penquins!

[Perfection]

Originally posted by Sn00py
The banana thing is stupid, just like people's fascination for penquins!

I would contend that "What's a child?" is a stupid question and therefore you are a hypocrite.

[Saras]

I would have removed the very bad case of food allergy that my son suffers from. So, Hell YEAH.

[Sir Og]

Why would I want to burden my child with all the genetic predisposition to diseases that I have if I can avoid that.

[Eli]

Of course I would.

But genetically engineering myself is much more fun.

[Pekka]

Difficult question, but a good one. I wouldn't 'enhance' my kid to be above normal, but in case of difficulties and possible problems... I don't know. A logical answer in my world would be absolutely, let's take care of the problem, after all the arguments against it are pretty much close to philosophical ones, so why would you let that get into a way of making sure your kid is 100%?

But... I don't know. On the other hand if there's some problem, it wouldn't mean my kid is less worthy. They share the same priceless value. Then again, it's the kid's life, not mine.

So maybe I should be less selfish and think about it from the kid's point of view. If I had some problems and they could have been taken cared of early on, wouldnt' I want it to be done? A minor modifications, doesn't mean I'm less of a human anyway. Of course I'd want it done. So possibly, most likely I'd fix the kid. But ONLY if there's is a considerable problem and it can be fixed.