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i recently read an article on how dna could help us choose how our children are.
a japanese scientist recently discovered a way to derive stem cells from regular skin cells, so no dead babies needed.
this could mean that in the end we could give some skin cells, get the stem cells, alter our dna to get rid of the flaws and make a perfected clone of ourselves.
or parents could go see a doctor and say 'i want a blonde athletic girl who is good at guitar and tennis'
in the end normal baby making would be seen as terrible and irresponsible, since it would be too much of a guess to just go for it without knowing what the outcome will be. sex and giving birth would be completely separate things.
of course, this new technology will be expensive. only the rich will be able to get their dna superior children. don't you think this will lead to a society that is even less equal than it is now, with the few people who were lucky to have parents rich enough to pay for their dna treatments being in charge of the less rich and less fortunate? this would basically mean that your level of authority in our society is even more determined by how rich your parents were.
and something that came to my mind: if you already know what you are going to get before you are pregnant, where's the joy in seeing your child develop itself and discovering its talents?
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