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excellent post.

The scary part is, this technology WON'T be used to create more productive humans, it will be used to create prettier humans without regard to side effects because they won't know what the side effects are untill after it's been done.

Humans are very shallow and very selfish creatures. If they had a choice between having a cute cuddly little baby that's cuter and cuddlier than everyone elses little baby, and a baby that will someday grow up to be slightly above average in some area of cognative ability, the vast majority would most certainly choose the cute baby. They would do this because they are selfish, ignorant jackasses. And so this science would be used in the most profitable way possible, and that is to cater to the masses and we as a society will see the creation of a new class of people. Designer babies that are born to be cute, regardless of the negative side effects. Sure, everone will be claiming to be able to give you a cute baby that also has superior health, but come on, don't be so naive. Dog and cat breeders all claim the same thing, yet practially all we see is pets with congenetal defects that show up in the pet's later years. It will be the same with designer babies. But that's ok because we will then invent designer drugs to take care of the designer babies' health problems...right?

What a freaking joke.

Yes, a sad joke.

We mutts and our decendents will be strong and breed true - with all the variety of humanity's potential - after all the purebreds fall prey to some virus or lose their ability to have kids at all.

Even if I'm wrong, and no vital gene will be wiped out and geneticists are able to breed disease resistance into future humans, the ends do not justify the means if the means is to kill human beings.

Our best quality as humans is our empathy and love for one another, even though as you said, we can be selfish and cruel. Even the selfish and cruel can pass on the genes that carry the capacity for empathy and kindness.

There is no such thing as a "defect" human being that is worthy of killing except some defect that causes one human to kill another, innocent human.