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FrankC — 5/14/2008 12:18:06 AM (archived)

In some of the scifi stories I read, the alterations are used to make ebony babies with blonde hair.

I am certainly not endorsing genetic alteration at this point but to say there will always be an ethical delimma is not how I feel.

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Genetically modified human embryos in Britain - TB - 5/12/2008 10:51:21 PM
- Designer babies are nightmares??? - Lee - 5/13/2008 1:31:24 AM
  - Why are folks like you so attracted to this idea? (n/t) - alcaray - 5/13/2008 7:53:55 AM
    - Well... - FrankC - 5/14/2008 12:18:06 AM
      - I guess what I am trying to say - FrankC - 5/14/2008 12:27:40 AM
    - Attractive, intelligent, strong, healthy, long lived people...what's not to be attracted to? - Lee - 5/13/2008 5:05:30 PM
      - Advance of science VS morality - Just a rant - 5/13/2008 9:50:14 PM
      - Well then, I'm screwed. (n/t) - Jody - 5/13/2008 6:39:15 PM
        
        What if someone could give those things to your children? - Lee - 5/13/2008 6:55:30 PM
        
        Good questions...I will have to think about them...and I will get back to you (n/t) - Jody - 5/13/2008 7:08:37 PM
        
        I see so many things wrong with it Lee...that I don't know where to begin. (n/t) - Jody - 5/13/2008 8:36:01 PM
        
        Might as well outlaw prenatal testing then. - Lee - 5/13/2008 10:01:04 PM
        
        Fix things after the fact?? - Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:18:04 PM
        
        That's what I'm saying. - Lee - 5/13/2008 10:26:28 PM
        
        You don't have any kids, do you? - Lindy - 5/14/2008 12:21:02 AM
        
        Hysteria - Lee - 5/14/2008 1:20:11 AM
        
        Regulation - Lindy - 5/14/2008 2:27:43 AM
      - non-responsive (n/t) - alcaray - 5/13/2008 5:51:57 PM
        
        I'm not sure what answer you're looking for. - Lee - 5/13/2008 6:50:19 PM
        
        re: I'm not sure what answer you're looking for. - Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:21:05 PM
        
        Look at the question again, then. - alcaray - 5/13/2008 9:48:55 PM
        
        Because every group has flaws. - Lee - 5/13/2008 10:13:49 PM
        
        HMMMMMM...Aliens (n/t) - Jody - 5/14/2008 11:12:41 AM
        
        A techno-eugenic future - JEKing - 5/13/2008 8:59:08 PM
        
        Exactly - Lee - 5/13/2008 9:58:31 PM
        
        "The anti GM crowd remind me a lot of anti-abortion activists. " - signed, Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:23:31 PM
        
        What's the difference? - Lee - 5/13/2008 10:32:24 PM
        
        Exactly! - Lindy - 5/14/2008 12:22:48 AM
        
        You misunderstand. - Lee - 5/14/2008 1:23:24 AM
      - Hybrid corn - TB - 5/13/2008 5:35:31 PM
        
        Uberdog - Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:25:10 PM
        
        Wolves - Lee - 5/13/2008 5:58:39 PM
        
        You don't get it. - TB - 5/13/2008 11:19:37 PM
        
        Just to be clear... - TB - 5/13/2008 11:29:33 PM
        
        Re: Beauty - Lee - 5/14/2008 1:46:41 AM
        
        I'm not talking yet. - Lee - 5/14/2008 1:34:21 AM
        
        re: Wolves - Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:26:57 PM
    - It is the Triumph of the Will. The Iron Dream. (n/t) - Feric JaggER - 5/13/2008 2:32:38 PM
      - Yea, but... - alcaray - 5/13/2008 5:55:13 PM
        
        An obsession with heredity is a sure sign of fascism. - ER - 5/13/2008 6:47:00 PM
        
        Good post - TB - 5/13/2008 11:47:44 PM
        
        re: An obsession with heredity is a sure sign of fascism. - Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:42:56 PM
        
        Like Tom, you're confusing selective breeding with genetic engineering. - Lee - 5/13/2008 7:02:51 PM
        
        re: Like Tom, you're confusing selective breeding with genetic engineering. - Lindy - 5/13/2008 10:50:44 PM
        
        Re: Dolly - Lee - 5/13/2008 11:02:07 PM

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