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Elodin
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posted April 12, 2011 05:31 PM

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What is the limit, of how much or what parents should be allowed to modify their children? (if there is a limit...)
They would only be allowed to add traits that are neutral or positive from the child's point of view. "Obedience" is too vague of a term, but, for example, they wouldn't be allowed to induce Downs Syndrome in their children.


Oh, and how would they know what the child would want? Maybe the parents want a basketball star and so they decide they want to engineer their child to be 8 feet tall and 400 pounds. The child may not want to play basketball and may consider what he was engineered to be as being a "freak."

Genetic engineering of a child to match what the parent wants in the ultimate in domineering "parenthood." Selfish and egotistical.
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wog_edn
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posted April 12, 2011 05:40 PM

For once I have to say that I agree with Elodin, what a parent wish and what the child wish will most certainly be very very different.
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JollyJoker
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posted April 12, 2011 05:57 PM

To be fair, what the child would have wished and what it gets without genetic engineering - "naturally" - are usually completely different things as well.
The child will have to live with what (s)he gets anyway.

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Corribus
Corribus

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posted April 12, 2011 06:02 PM

@JJ
Exactly.  

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Doomforge
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posted April 12, 2011 06:07 PM

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To be fair, what the child would have wished and what it gets without genetic engineering - "naturally" - are usually completely different things as well.
The child will have to live with what (s)he gets anyway.



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Elodin
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posted April 12, 2011 06:33 PM

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To be fair, what the child would have wished and what it gets without genetic engineering - "naturally" - are usually completely different things as well.
The child will have to live with what (s)he gets anyway.


The logical conclusion of your argument is that a parent should be allowed to engineer a child who will have no legs or arms, is blind, and deaf.
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Cepheus
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posted April 12, 2011 06:36 PM

I daresay you would have a hard time finding either a parent or child interested in having no legs, arms, sight or hearing.
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Corribus
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posted April 12, 2011 06:36 PM

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The logical Elodin conclusion of your argument is that a parent should be allowed to engineer a child who will have no legs or arms, is blind, and deaf.


You made an apparent typographical error, Elodin. But don't worry, buddy.  I fixed it for you.  

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Elodin
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posted April 13, 2011 02:55 AM

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The logical Elodin conclusion of your argument is that a parent should be allowed to engineer a child who will have no legs or arms, is blind, and deaf.


You made an apparent typographical error, Elodin. But don't worry, buddy.  I fixed it for you.  


The logical conclusion and the Elodin conclusion are of course always the same.

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I daresay you would have a hard time finding either a parent or child interested in having no legs, arms, sight or hearing.



There are a lot of freaks out there. Don't underestimate what they might want to do to their children.

They might also want to do something like make them 10 feet tall with a single eye in the middle of their forehead to create a race of cyclops. Or try to make their children half horse and half human to create a race of centaur.

If the argument is that children have no say so over their genetic information anyways and thus parents have the right to genetically engineer them then any of the above is permissible.

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blizzardboy
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posted April 13, 2011 02:57 AM

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They might also want to do something like make them 10 feet tall with a single eye in the middle of their forehead to create a race of cyclops.


Best.

Idea.

Ever.
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Fauch
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posted April 13, 2011 03:48 AM

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If the argument is that children have no say so over their genetic information anyways and thus parents have the right to genetically engineer them then any of the above is permissible.


what about the poor horses?

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