Would you genetically augment your children?

[MessiahDecoy123]

Well, that gets more into imprinting, which is also possible. Literal brainwashing. I'm not a proponent of that though.

But physically engineering your child for acceptance and social climbing may not be imprinting but it robs them of their independent spirit.

The many social and physical obstacles contribute to who we are as individuals.

If your kid has perfect skin, high IQ, fast metabolism, good looks, no mental illness, etc you are almost ensuring not only their social acceptance but their social indoctrination in a way.

There's no way society will allow a person like that to become a complete outsider, it's too dangerous.

So basically by removing a person's flaws you're making it harder for them to be an independent thinker. There's a reason Socrates, the first great philosophyer, was ugly. He had personal reasons to question society's priorities and direction.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Of course you have the type of person who twist and bends for acceptance from society no matter how much they're told they don't meet the qualifications.

Plastic surgery, materialism, or even genetically modifying your children.

You think these will add genuine value to your life's journey. They are symptoms of backwards priorities. Plastic tropies that prove nothing but your desperation for endlessly conditional love.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Most mental illnesses can't be dealt with only by taking a pill. And I don't know if most people dealing with them see them as vital to who they are in a positive way. Of course many folks can come to embrace all they are, but how many would rather not deal with the issue at all? And how are their parents to know before they are born? Should those parents wait till the kids grow up on the (off?)-chance that those kids will come to appreciate their condition, or should they, if they could, use genetic augmentation so that their children never have to deal with it in the first place?

I'm just throwing it out there that mental illness may be the key to a persons spiritual journey, not in a organized religion sense but a directional compass sense.

You can play God if you want to but don't expect all your moral and social dilemmas.

Since Roman times we have travels into space and are on the verge of artificial intelligence yet we find the same moral and social challenges the Roman empire had.

The human condition and spirituality will always offer the same challenges no matter how much you toy with this reality.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

I am not necessarily fearful of the possibility of such technologies and I think it could do a lot of great good, but at the same time, humans are not always known for great decision making and I question the wisdom of having the biology of the following generation be susceptible essentially to fashion.

My kid is going to be born with frost tip hair, NFL player genetics and two huge penises.

It will be the ultimate man. A mix between an American Idol host, a legendary football player and sex god.

I'll be the proudest dad ever.

 

[childeroland]

I'm just throwing it out there that mental illness may be the key to a persons spiritual journey, not in a organized religion sense but a directional compass sense.

If that's playing God so is all medicine. Should we all be physically ill too without seeking cures?

You can play God if you want to but don't expect all your moral and social dilemmas.

Since Roman times we have travels into space and are on the verge of artificial intelligence yet we find the same moral and social challenges the Roman empire had.

The human condition and spirituality will always offer the same challenges no matter how much you toy with this reality.

One could say the same of all sicknesses or whatever term is more appropriate. Which ones should we keep to insure our integrity? There's nothing wrong with not changing if one doesn't want to -- and certainly cultural bias concerning what's "normative" should be kept in mind always -- but why shouldn't parents whose kids might not see mental illness as possibly integral to their kids identity, as most people probably don't, help their kids? (Or "help", if one likes.) Because some day the kids might see their condition that way? What if the kids don't and the parents could have made it so that they didn't have to deal with the issue in the first place.