Is gene selection bad, will it lead a problematic future, I don't think so. When the possibility to choose the genes of our children surely it will only be for the rich. This will lead to a big distinction between the classes (upper class, middle class, and lower class). But I do think that when the technology gets better it will eventually become affordable to the general public. This would mean that most of the human population would have and be able to select genes. People will choose to have their children perfectly beautiful and perfectly intelligent. Which wouldn't be all that different from now. I say that because it couldn't be possible for everyone to be equally beautiful regardless of being able to the genes. Everyone would have to look the same for everyone to be equally beautiful. And for the intelligence it would mean that there would be lots of intelligent people doing jobs the drop outs can do today, which will definitely lead to frustration but that's no different in some cases now in Canada (of course other places too). The competition would be very high in schools because that half mark on the test would be the difference between passing and failing (passing grade would be something ridiculously high like 98%. This is different though). More or less distinctions would be made even if people were able to choose the genes of their children or not.
This is purely speculation.
I saw several blog that talked about the same topic, if I am repeating someone, I apologize, I haven't read all the blog entrees.
I choose to write my blog entree like this to see what other people thought of this topic.
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ReplyDeleteOne problem that I see on gene selection is that in some part of the world, for example in India parents are all in favor of having a boy instead of a girl as a child. Right now, we know that gene selection is impossible but lets say it was possible, I bet in these countries like India, the first thing parents would do is choose male as the sex of their offspring and this would raise a huge issue because there would be less female birth than male. And in a few years this could have a great impact because then there would be less females and more males.
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