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	<title>Comments on: Paradise City Where the Babies Are Pretty: A Question on Genetic Engineering</title>
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		<title>By: Rey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, wouldn&#039;t adding a disease to a child&#039;s be on par with Hitler&#039;s eugenic control? Isn&#039;t it elevating the genetic characteristics of X disease to the desirable level and thus ignoring the normal genetic makeup of the formed child?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, wouldn&#8217;t adding a disease to a child&#8217;s be on par with Hitler&#8217;s eugenic control? Isn&#8217;t it elevating the genetic characteristics of X disease to the desirable level and thus ignoring the normal genetic makeup of the formed child?</p>
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		<title>By: Josh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t think we really &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to remove genetic diseases from the genome. I mean, we&#039;re bringing a child into being here. Surely, as long as the child will live a good and happy life, it is still perfectly good to bring that child into existence. Especially so if it also makes the parents happier - having more happy people is good.

So, I guess that means that I am also in favour of allowing people to add genetic diseases to their child&#039;s genome, if the parents desire. After all, who are we to dictate what sort of child people should be having? For us to try control other people&#039;s reproduction like that is just wrong - wrong like Hitler&#039;s eugenic control over people&#039;s reproduction was wrong.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t think we really <i>have</i> to remove genetic diseases from the genome. I mean, we&#8217;re bringing a child into being here. Surely, as long as the child will live a good and happy life, it is still perfectly good to bring that child into existence. Especially so if it also makes the parents happier &#8211; having more happy people is good.</p>
<p>So, I guess that means that I am also in favour of allowing people to add genetic diseases to their child&#8217;s genome, if the parents desire. After all, who are we to dictate what sort of child people should be having? For us to try control other people&#8217;s reproduction like that is just wrong &#8211; wrong like Hitler&#8217;s eugenic control over people&#8217;s reproduction was wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Rey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MCF replied in full &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysteriouscloakedfigure.blogspot.com/2008/03/better-mcf.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MCF replied in full <a href="http://mysteriouscloakedfigure.blogspot.com/2008/03/better-mcf.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Rey</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s a really good point. Implementing this sort of genetic tampering opens us up to an entire new realm of potential &quot;diseases&quot; on the genetic level. An Off Switch on say Dominicanism can me an On switch on &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysteriouscloakedfigure.blogspot.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;emCeeEhfism&lt;/a&gt;.

So that is a huge potential problem.

The ethical problems you raised are also very self-evident. A perfect race implies a sort of homogeneity which demarcates anything outside of that so-called perfection as Faulty. Not only that, I would imagine that this leaves humanity vulnerable in matters of adaptation. I mean, if we were all tall, that&#039;d be a problem if a race of aliens attacked with a penchant against Tall Beings. 

I know that&#039;s silly but the point is that humans have various characteristics that make them more adaptable to certain situations and diseases.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s a really good point. Implementing this sort of genetic tampering opens us up to an entire new realm of potential &#8220;diseases&#8221; on the genetic level. An Off Switch on say Dominicanism can me an On switch on <a href="http://mysteriouscloakedfigure.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">emCeeEhfism</a>.</p>
<p>So that is a huge potential problem.</p>
<p>The ethical problems you raised are also very self-evident. A perfect race implies a sort of homogeneity which demarcates anything outside of that so-called perfection as Faulty. Not only that, I would imagine that this leaves humanity vulnerable in matters of adaptation. I mean, if we were all tall, that&#8217;d be a problem if a race of aliens attacked with a penchant against Tall Beings. </p>
<p>I know that&#8217;s silly but the point is that humans have various characteristics that make them more adaptable to certain situations and diseases.</p>
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		<title>By: testpig</title>
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		<dc:creator>testpig</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No one really knows what sort of crazy chain reactions can happen on the sub DNA level. What strand of code keeps another strand of code in check.. and vice versa.

Do we really want carbon copies of each other running around. Sure that is a tad extreme, but i&#039;m sure eventually, we will start to view all sorts of things as defects.  To tall, to short, fat/skinng/ ugly/hot. To dark, to light, to domincan(born with Dominos Disease). Where would we finally draw the line? 

Will hitler finally get his &quot;perfect race&quot;?

I guess on the plus side, we can actually develope people to do a set job. Figthers, thickers, builders... i think this was an old episode of Startrek next gen.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No one really knows what sort of crazy chain reactions can happen on the sub DNA level. What strand of code keeps another strand of code in check.. and vice versa.</p>
<p>Do we really want carbon copies of each other running around. Sure that is a tad extreme, but i&#8217;m sure eventually, we will start to view all sorts of things as defects.  To tall, to short, fat/skinng/ ugly/hot. To dark, to light, to domincan(born with Dominos Disease). Where would we finally draw the line? </p>
<p>Will hitler finally get his &#8220;perfect race&#8221;?</p>
<p>I guess on the plus side, we can actually develope people to do a set job. Figthers, thickers, builders&#8230; i think this was an old episode of Startrek next gen.</p>
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