[Old_Mil]

Like it or not, a refusal to consider medical advances that strengthen your offsprings genetic code will lead to your offspring being weaker and fewer in number. Breeding a race of slaves, in effect.

Which begs the question, strengthen one's genetic code with regard to which environment? The one that a shortsighted group of parents who are trying to breed the next heisman trophy winner select? Or the unknown environment that said child could face in another fifty years when the parents who made that choice are in the ground and the world has moved on to a place unimaginable to them?

Genetic variance in a population gives that population a higher chance of survival over the long term. If we all start self selecting to year 2000 societal standards, we increase the chance that none of us will be around to see the year 3000.

IVF, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and human genetic engineering all need to be banned outright for the long term good of our species.

[orionblamblam]

> strengthen one's genetic code with regard to which environment?

The environemnt that says that cancer and Parkinson's and whatnot are bad.

> IVF, embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and human genetic engineering all need to be banned outright for the long term good of our species.

Riiiiight. And then we can get rid of chemotherapy and glasses, too.