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| audibodiboo |
 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:22 pm
Post subject: No To Designer Dogs But What About Designer Babies? |
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I promise I have an oppinion on this but I'm limited for time, as I'm at work and really should be working and not playing on PFer.  And so, as I often do on these boards, I'll drop a hot potato and see who picks it up!
The article I stumbled across was found via MSN, which frequently updates their news, so any given time the link could end up dead. Just a pre-warning for those that read this thread later on. Here it is, interestingly titled "Designing Your Baby". Now, in an environment such as this, designing your dog (designer dogs) is frowned upon and for many reasons. Do any of those reasons apply to designer babies as well? What are the thoughts of the folks of PFer?
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I'll comment soonish. Oh and poll please! ^^
* If you guys have any interesting articles from other resources, feel free to share them via link!
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Mutts4Me
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Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:32 pm
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Without even glancing at the article.......I disagree.  What ever happened to nature? Thumbs DOWN..... 
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| kristina |
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:45 pm
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| double thumbs down, with big toes down.....squared! |
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| Stacey Webb |
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:48 pm
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Smacks of 'Brave New World' to me... a big no. What a scary world we are living in.
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| puffinsmom |
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:41 pm
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| That's a really scary thought! What happens to all the designer babies that don't come out just as the parents "ordered" them? Not to be controversial, but it sounds like Hitler's dream. Everyone can be blond and blue-eyed. |
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| InLoveWithAPrince |
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:57 pm
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It's really not the same thing at all as designer dogs. I wouldn't care to do it myself but I have no real moral qualms about it in theory (no religious reservations). Science keeps marching on. I have an issue with it in the sense that it's allowing people to project too much control onto life desperately and some are bound to be disappointed and not handle it well. That's why, although I don't think it's wrong per se, I would advise people not to do it and to let things be. At some point everyone has to accept life or you're going to spiral out of control when the plan inevitably breaks down.
My main thought with things like this is "...and stem cell research is not allowed?" yeah right. Whatever. Designing perfect people while we watch those already alive dying slowly when science could find a cure. That's a crying shame. |
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| audibodiboo |
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:08 am
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| puffinsmom wrote: | | That's a really scary thought! What happens to all the designer babies that don't come out just as the parents "ordered" them? Not to be controversial, but it sounds like Hitler's dream. Everyone can be blond and blue-eyed. |
This, I can imagine. 
Two parents having dreamed the perfect child, only to be disappointed when he or she turns out not quite as pictured.
| InLoveWithAPrince wrote: |
It's really not the same thing at all as designer dogs. I wouldn't care to do it myself but I have no real moral qualms about it in theory (no religious reservations). Science keeps marching on. I have an issue with it in the sense that it's allowing people to project too much control onto life desperately and some are bound to be disappointed and not handle it well. That's why, although I don't think it's wrong per se, I would advise people not to do it and to let things be. At some point everyone has to accept life or you're going to spiral out of control when the plan inevitably breaks down.
My main thought with things like this is "...and stem cell research is not allowed?" yeah right. Whatever. Designing perfect people while we watch those already alive dying slowly when science could find a cure. That's a crying shame. |
That's pretty much where I stand. Put the green-light on for stem-cell. |
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margeaux22
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Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:11 am
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| I read the article on MSN and it is quite scary that the FDA is not allowed to monitor what is going on in the fertility treatment world. France has stringent rules; Whereas, in the USA, doctors are not as monitored and procedures are tested on humans w/o thought to the repurcussions in the future. Such as the treatment for low " squigglies" has the possibility of major problems in the future. |
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| Stacey Webb |
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:09 am
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Just to be clear, you can be morally against something without having a religious view. 
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| InLoveWithAPrince |
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:39 pm
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| Stacey Webb wrote: | | Just to be clear, you can be morally against something without having a religious view. |
But it's not a stretch to say that religion is a strong factor in forming those morals. I'm not saying it's wrong. People opposed to this morally tend to view it as messing where humans don't belong. Following that argument generally takes some concept of the idea of a power beyond humans. If not in organized religion, at least in a guiding power that we have to abide by (the idea of providence).
I'm not saying you HAVE to, it's just that otherwise it would follow that this is as much in the way of human progress as say, C sections, or modern medecine. If you really believe that humans act independently and will continue to progress infinitely, then you don't have a moral problem with it rooted in religion.
I would call my problem with it more ethical than moral, because it focuses on how human nature would affect this rather than the idea that it's acceptable or unacceptable in theory. In theory, I don't think it's morally unsound. I think it's human progress. Practically, I don't think it would be ethical to advise people to go down this path because they could be disappointed. |
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