From the Washington Post.

I'm sorry I'm so politically incorrect, but deliberately selecting to limit a child's capacities is just plain nuts. I suppose if something had gone wrong, they would have had to jab an icepick into his ears.

You don't have children to be "just like you." This is immature, and typical of many self-centered parents today. You have them to be better than you. If I found out that my kid was genetically twice as smart as I was, or taller, would I correct it to make sure he was the "same as me?"

Any hearing child, particularly raised by deaf people, can learn ASL. This custom-made deaf kid will never hear Beethoven, a canary, waves on the shore, or anything else. But the parents don't care--he's "just like them."

There is an analagous situation. In the gay community around here there were--and still are--a certain number who deliberately expose themselves to AIDS to be part of what they saw as a special culture, or for other more bizarre reasons.*

...gay men are beginning to see seroconversion and entry into the AIDS System as a gesture of solidarity with their fellows, a rite of passage, and a political act.

This is all insane.

*See Part 1 and Part 2 of the article, "The AIDS Cult and it’s Seroconverts."