Designer babies are here.

[Zkribbler]

What we are saying is that anyone with a disability isn't fit to live.

That wasn't US that said that. I think it might have been Hitler.

[Provost Harrison]

I don't like the idea when it is regarding traits that are completely trivial, and stinks of "master race" quite frankly. If we are trying to enhance meaningful human traits such as intelligence or avoid genetic disorders, that is fine, but we're certainly not at that point yet.

[Dinner]

More healthy people and blond chicks.

[Theben]

My main issue is that eventually a specific set of traits will become the most desirable for parents, and then some disease comes along that wipes out 99.99999% of the human race.

[DinoDoc]

More healthy people and blond chicks.

Sieg Heil!

[PLATO]

So...The Master Race after all?

meh...this is really a "so what?" kind of thing. The rich already can provide better nutrition, living conditions, education, and access to opportunity. What difference does it really matter if they are all blond hair and blue eyes (or black hair and brown eyes for that matter)?

[Agathon]

You'd think we would have discovered that eugenics is a fundamentally bad idea by now. Unless such practices are brutally regulated, they are an ethical minefield. It's rather like organ selling - there seems to be no way to organize it that doesn't cause terrible problems.

The kind of people who would go for this are exactly the kind of people we would not want to design persons.

[Theben]

Mr. Huxley is either laughing his ass off or turning in his grave.

[FrostyBoy]

My main issue is that eventually a specific set of traits will become the most desirable for parents, and then some disease comes along that wipes out 99.99999% of the human race.

Theben's right.

Variability is life's best survival tool.

[Agathon]

It's not even that. All you need to do to object to this is look at popular trends in interior design from 1960 to now. You look at that and then tell me it's a good idea to let the same sort of people design human beings.

[EPW]

Improving the human race

Ethics

[Ben Kenobi]

That wasn't US that said that. I think it might have been Hitler.

Should have clarified. When discussing this idea, we are arguing that the idea states that disabled people are not fit to live.

[Zkribbler]

Theben's right.

Variability is life's best survival tool.

Bah, my winged offspring with their prehensile tails should be enough variability for anyone. Plus, their insatiable hunger for human flesh will mean they'll soon be the dominate life form on this planet.

Bwuhahahahahahahahaha!

[Barnabas]

I hope a genocidal dictator stops this madness

[rah]

Should have clarified. When discussing this idea, we are arguing that the idea states that disabled people are not fit to live.

Come on. That's twice you've asked that, and no where, does anyone even come close to inferring that. So either you're simply trolling or you believe that. But stop saying that's what people mean in this discussion because that's simply not the case. But then why am I not suprised that your statement followed no real logic.