Would you genetically augment your children?

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Bioethics have been in the news lately, and it inevitably brings up this subject. The automatic answer seems to be no. Ethics and all that (designer babies). But I do wonder. Given a choice, would you genetically enhance your children?

Give them a high IQ, immune to most diseases, make them athletic, etc.
 
If I had the resources.....I have to admit I probably would.
 
I would consider it. The method would have to be proven safe though.
 
Sure, I always wanted to raise a little Khan.
 
It would depend upon the nature of the "enhancement." It seems to me that genetic modifications that are not superficial in nature could be potentially dangerous.
 
You never get something for nothing. That's all I have to say about that. :o
 
Short answer: Yes. But what augmentation to choose...

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Bioethics have been in the news lately, and it inevitably brings up this subject. The automatic answer seems to be no. Ethics and all that (designer babies). But I do wonder. Given a choice, would you genetically enhance your children?

Give them a high IQ, immune to most diseases, make them athletic, etc.


-_- this is highly immoral so I should say nooooooooooo.


:awesome: but I would make my kids better than me, but give them wizard powers. No, X-Men powers. Singing ability, no speech problem, higher I.Q., and super powers.

Oh, and when they get mad or upset, I would give them the ability to change their eyes to demon red. But when happy, their eyes be like icy blue. :dry: and, eh, they be mutants.
 
You're so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you don't stop to think if you should.

Anyhow, Federation law strictly prohibits genetic augmentation.
 
Cybernetic enhancements FTW.

It will ensure my kid is better at math and sports.

Think of all the trophies he will win. Maybe he could get an endorsement contract from the cybernetics company. I would be so proud of my genetic offspring, well partially anyway.
 
I would only genetically alter my children so they wouldnt have to deal with genetic health issues such as something like a low metabolism/acne/heart disease/etc. I wouldn't like to change anything else.
 
First the rich will do it, some in secret eventually unapologeticlly, to insure their designer kids have a step up. These designer kids will be the ideal fawned over by society in the media, and on this forum.
Any un-enhanced kids, now pressured and taunted by society for being "normal", will blame their parents for their inherited genetic physical, and mental "weaknesses & shortcomings"
Any who consiously abstain on now outdated moral grounds, will be marginalized by society as backwards, weak, ugly , dumb and creatures of the past.
When it's finally affordable, everyone will start doing it. just so their kids can "fit in" and compete in a world that caters to those enhancement ideals now shared by most.
Eventually everything; looks, intelligence, height, race, etc culminating in one homogenized look and eventuaklly gender, as none will want to have their kid being discriminated against or be biased on one over the other, so they'll all be born with both genders, i.e there won't be gender, it will be a non issue.
A generation will be born where all humans will be so genetically similar pulling from the same idealizes stock, reproduction through breeding will disintegrate, as there will be no variety of genetic information being exchanged. The equivalent of over-interbreeding.
And collapse of human race.
With the ability to reproduce destroyed, cloning becomes the norm, and we fianly have a society of a same self replicating hermaphrodites.

Congratulations, the perfect human cockroach....
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fyi amalgamation of Will Smith, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, and Angelina Jolie.
 
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Sure, I always wanted to raise a little Khan.
Something that always bugged me about the 80's movie is that for the original 60's TV series (Space Seed), they went out of their way to show actual variety would be the forward thinking ideal in the future.
Khan a Hispanic guy playing an idealized Sikh, with a crew that was equally diverse, mostly implied by name; Otto, Joaquin, Kati, Rodriguez, Ling, McPherson, just some of those listed, as well as visually.
Then in the 80's for some reason, in the movie they all suddenly became strictly Nordic looking, the new (old) ideal?

Was this just a choice of the director, did they think modern audiences wouldn't get the idea of genetic enhancements unless they all looked scandinavian or northern european?

Seems like 60s Trek was more forward thinking than 80s Trek.
 
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I agree, everyone will just look the same. With the infatuation with Hollywoods fake ideal male and female image, everyone will want their kids to look that way. Eventually we'll all just look exactly the same and dating wont be as fun :(
 
You're so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you don't stop to think if you should.

Anyhow, Federation law strictly prohibits genetic augmentation.

You and your damnable Federation, so bubbly and cloying and happy.
 
I would only strengthen the immune system. Everything else should be acquired through hard work.
 

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