Designer babies is the start. Like I already believe if you're "selecting" something like your baby's gender, you're fuckin Hitler. But then, my roommate was all, "Well what if you could remove the trait for Huntington's that runs in the family?"

So there's clearly a spectrum of ways that genetic engineering could go.

The most interesting case to me is of He Jianku, who reportedly began studying and modifying human embryos. CIA fear disinfo, or Chinese scientists just marching ahead and setting the new standards of the 21st century?

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah but who the fuck cares. 2 blonde people can fuck

    I was just making sure. My instinct was that most on here are against designer babies. Because it could lead to loads of people choosing to be "white".

    You could also add a restriction where the gene has to be in some of your zygotes, or in the zygotes of someone in your lineage

    You can find virtually all phenotypic genes in virtually all groups of people. The difference is frequencies.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah I would never do a designer baby, but I'm more thinking about what should be illegal, and that doesn't qualify (assuming future technology where it's safe). I will relentlessly mock people for doing it though, like seriously just have a goddamn kid.

      Also yeah I wouldn't allow people to pick like, genes that arent anywhere in their family, but if some of their sperm is blonde kids, who cares