What makes y'all think parents need to genemod their kids in order to treat them in a ****ed-up fashion? Every single example that yo listed, every one, can be seen day-to-day right here and now. I'd say a large majority of parents put their children up to unrealistic ideals, or ones that have nothing to do with the child's wants and needs. A fair-sized minority do this badly enough to give their children neuroses that manifest later in life- look at all the soccer moms, the kids dragged through the whole acting bit until they're ****ing insane, the little boys dragged off to get their spines telescoped by larger, foul-tempered children because their dad wants them to be football players. What, exactly, would change here? The ****ed-up people will remain ****ed-up, no matter what, and they'll manage to act in a ****ed-up fashion whether you give them the ability to act on one manifestation of that or not. Ban something because the ****ed-up people might abuse it, you're just depriving everyone else of a useful item or technology. It's misguided at best, actively the most harmful thing modern industrialized governments do to their people at worst. And it's terribly patronizing, too- not all of us are that ****ed-up, not even a notable minority are that bad- it'll be, once again, those nutty upper-middle-class housewives and such who want to live vicariously through their children, and ruin their lives in the process. And, once again, they don't need some fancy technology to do that, they get along fine.
And what is this **** about it being done "against their will"? A fetus doesn't have a will, not one that's of any concern to anyone else, anyway. Were we to let babies have their way, they'd all chew on ****ing electrical cords and die. After ****ting all over the house and wrecking stuff to the point where they wouldn't be missed. A baby is an undeveloped mind- they do not have reasoning capability, they do not have a distinct personality, they have not developed into an intelligent organism whose concerns in these matters is of any importance. Well, okay, some importance when whatever the action is doesn't have a direct positive bearing on the child's health, but what are you gonna do? Poll the fetuses?
It's not like they'd have an opinion, anyway. Sexual identity starts developing well after birth- it's all quite the same to an unborn child, in fact later in life they'd have no conception of what life'd be like the other way. You wouldn't get, say, any more transsexuals or other people with gender identity problems in a gene-modified population than you would in the regular one as a whole. They'd be normal men and women like you and I- provided the surgery was successful and didn't have any wierd side effects, which is a whole other story altogether. Basically, you're projecting your personal reactions to such a thing onto an entity that would not share them in the slightest.
Moral qualifiers ("it's unnatural" is basically the more PC evolution of "it's against God's plan", which is a bull****-laden way of saying "I don't like it and can't be bothered to find a real reason why) don't factor in here- if you think something should be banned for all people just because you personally find it wrong, end of story, please, I beg of you- never, ever vote. Or participate in politics in any fashion, ever again. You people are what comprise the everpresent threat of theocratic dictatorship. If there is a reason you find it wrong- fine, find a reason. State it. But if it has anything to do with what some ****ing book says, or your personal unbased gut reactions to something, don't even think about trying to force that on me or anyone I know or I part your hair with a shotgun. And that is my moral code.
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