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Notably, this prevents transmission of a disease that is "fatal to any baby conceived", which makes this as uncontroversial a case of a "designer baby" as I can imagine. After this, the ethics get much more complicated.
Notably, this prevents transmission of a disease that is "fatal to any baby conceived", which makes this as uncontroversial a case of a "designer baby" as I can imagine. After this, the ethics get much more complicated.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
Notably, this prevents transmission of a disease that is "fatal to any baby conceived", which makes this as uncontroversial a case of a "designer baby" as I can imagine. After this, the ethics get much more complicated.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
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It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
It occurs to me there aren't any; it's just a postmodern habit to treat every new technological possibility as an ethical problem first.
Notably, this prevents transmission of a disease that is "fatal to any baby conceived", which makes this as uncontroversial a case of a "designer baby" as I can imagine. After this, the ethics get much more complicated.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It occurs to me there aren't any; it's just a postmodern habit to treat every new technological possibility as an ethical problem first.
Right, no quandary at all created by the possibility that mistakes and misunderstandings might lead to children with severe medical problems. Short, miserable lifetimes of suffering are a high cost for "improving the species", and they are a real possibility if the approach taken is to just try things that seem worth trying.
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It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
Babies that can run, jump, faster and higher, and live longer, and are generally smarter and just more advanced evolved.. It's like some breeds of dogs/monkeys are smarter than others. So will the 'smart' ones think they are better than all the rest of us.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
Babies that can run, jump, faster and higher, and live longer, and are generally smarter and just more advanced evolved.. It's like some breeds of dogs/monkeys are smarter than others. So will the 'smart' ones think they are better than all the rest of us.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
Babies that can run, jump, faster and higher, and live longer, and are generally smarter and just more advanced evolved.. It's like some breeds of dogs/monkeys are smarter than others. So will the 'smart' ones think they are better than all the rest of us.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It occurs to me: What are the ethical problems with designer babies?
It occurs to me there aren't any; it's just a postmodern habit to treat every new technological possibility as an ethical problem first.