Today Show discussing genetic engineering

To be fair, I think a lot of people on both sides are very uneasy about unabashedly playing God in that way.

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To be fair, I think a lot of people on both sides are very uneasy about unabashedly playing God in that way.

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Agreed. There are some definite good things that could come from such tinkering (healthier, longer-lived, more athletic, more intelligent, etc) but it's a definite Pandora's Box.

I could see future scenarios working out where such modified children were ostracized in society, but later after it became more accepted I could see non-modified children being the ones ostracized (maybe even to such a point that modification became as mandatory as vaccine shots for school enrollment).

I think that’s actually a pretty interesting argument I’d like to hear a prog defend.

If you are pro choice then I assume you are also for genetic engineering of the baby to be white, male, straight, blonde, athletic and with a 10” mule cock? Reproductive rights after all.

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To be fair, I think a lot of people on both sides are very uneasy about unabashedly playing God in that way.

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I am fairly liberal(as conservatives go) regarding a womans right to choose....I just find it pretty hypocritical to decide that a woman can terminate a pregnancy for any reason at all yet get squeamish at the thoughts of modifying an embryo that will live.

I don't believe that the scientific community is too sure about what would happen if they genetically engineered or altered an embryo.

I always get the sense that if we tweak one thing or another it will lead to a domino effect of unclear results.

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They have no problem doing it to our food supply, cloning animals, etc.

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"They" need to leave it be.

Gattica!!!!