The age of genetically altering your baby could be among us. What are your thoughts surrounding that?

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If your all good with abortion I think you'll have no issues with this as well. But say you dont want boring old brown eyes and instead blue or green. Natural blonde or brunnet. Size of their genitalia. In certain ways these can all be custom designed. Unethical enough right now that its not cleared through for enough legit trials. But the science behind it is finished out and tested enough without harming humans that we know of. Its safe apparently. With the idea of abortion already being welcome I think it makes sense to me that people would alter their children. Give them more beauty, a life without hamful genetic diseases like cancer, autism. It could potentially build a generation free of cancer. I'm all for the necessary alterations myself like for genetic diseases and what not but for the sake of good looks and like future sex appeal. Not worth it to me as much.

The age of genetically altering your baby could be among us. What are your thoughts surrounding that?

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DizzyDesii | 588 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

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Wait porn stars be wearing fake nipples 🤣 i mean IVF is one thing but what you mentioned is some next level shit. Im not gonna spend that much money. I’ll be happy with the whatever beautiful baby the Lord provides me

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WhiteGlaze

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Thats fair lol I dont think I'd want to chance a science fuck up on my child. I'd have them prevent any defects though just for good measure.

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WhiteGlaze

Thats fair lol I dont think I'd want to chance a science fuck up on my child. I'd have them prevent any defects though just for good measure.

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Anonymous

I know a kid with no arms. I say let science fix this crap.

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Opinion Owner

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Thanks

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Madhatter920 | 288 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

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I think we're still a very long away from anything like that, if it is possible at all. There is a lot of research in that area, but they currently don't understand it well enough to change one thing without also accidently changing something else, as a single gene is almost always responsible for multiple traits. So by removing a gene for a long nose, you may also be accidentally creating webbed toes, as that gene may be shared for both traits. A real life example of this is by changing the color of moths using gene editing, they caused the wings of the moths to be fused to the body and unable to move, because the genetic code for one was also part of the code of the other.

However, in an ideal future where you can accurately and deliberately edit genes to create only desired traits, of course, I'm all for it. Make humans as close to perfect as possible. Evolution is slow and our world is changing quickly. We should learn to change quickly as well.

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WhiteGlaze

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Right but I imagine it'll be possible reasonably soon within 10 years for sure. I' think it would be basic things first like eye color or hair color.

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WhiteGlaze

Right but I imagine it'll be possible reasonably soon within 10 years for sure. I' think it would be basic things first like eye color or hair color.

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Hangry22

Guru

Instead of this, the correct step to be taken is limiting the number of children each couple can have to two

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WhiteGlaze

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How? Does? That even?
Liam_Hayden

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If people can afford more they should have more. Losers who need to go on welfare to support their kids should not have any.
Hangry22

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@whiteglaze if this was available to everyone, after some time everyone would be healthy and beautiful and perfect which would mean there would be no special advantage in having blue eyes /green eyes, etc.
@liam_hayden It's not about what people can afford. It's about what the earth can afford since it has unlimited resources to sustain everyone. If such a change as specified in the question takes place, there would be no more human population since the death rate would decrease while birth rate would keep on increasing
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WhiteGlaze

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Well we've got some population control happening as we speak so it'll make some room for another round of baby boomers Im sure.
Hangry22

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Nothing completely effective is being implemented. Many people are even unaware about birth control methods
WhiteGlaze

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I was talking about Corona virus. But yeah I do see the overlying problem there.

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WhiteGlaze

How? Does? That even?

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Liam_Hayden

If people can afford more they should have more. Losers who need to go on welfare to support their kids should not have any.

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Hangry22

@whiteglaze if this was available to everyone, after some time everyone would be healthy and beautiful and perfect which would mean there would be no special advantage in having blue eyes /green eyes, etc.
@liam_hayden It's not about what people can afford. It's about what the earth can afford since it has unlimited resources to sustain everyone. If such a change as specified in the question takes place, there would be no more human population since the death rate would decrease while birth rate would keep on increasing

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WhiteGlaze

Well we've got some population control happening as we speak so it'll make some room for another round of baby boomers Im sure.

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Hangry22

Nothing completely effective is being implemented. Many people are even unaware about birth control methods

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WhiteGlaze

I was talking about Corona virus. But yeah I do see the overlying problem there.

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Liam_Hayden

Guru

As if the powers that be won't abuse this to create enslaved super soldiers to keep the rest of us in line.

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WhiteGlaze

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It is possible but I'm sure they'll already do that. This is a happy future scenerio.

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WhiteGlaze

It is possible but I'm sure they'll already do that. This is a happy future scenerio.

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Anonymous

This is a great way to make more compliant human beings who are easier to enslave.

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WhiteGlaze

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Ah true I mean apparently flouride does that already.

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WhiteGlaze

Ah true I mean apparently flouride does that already.

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JKingOff | 57 opinions shared on Health & Fitness topic.

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Great! My kid won't have to grow up my my disabilities.

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