Gene Therapy: The Right Thing To Do

I don't like people who deny progress because they think it MIGHT lead to SOME bad effects. There are many, many cases of this, but the particular example that's on my nerves at the moment is stupid people who reckon that the inrtoduction of gene manipulation in foetuses [foeti??] is a horrible thing. For those who don't get what that means, it's basically changing the specs of unborn babies to determine what they'll be like when they get out of there.

The benefits of using this to effectively destroy hereditary diseases is undoutable. But there is a good deal of unhappiness over the fact that parents will also be able to change what the kid will look like when they grow up too. Supposedly this will make people more and more generic to conform to some sort of standard definition of beauty as parents try to make their kids more attractive.

Firstly, what the hell is wrong with helping kids be more attractive?? The world would be such a happier place if everyone was beautiful. Think about it. No ugly people. Unless I'm mistaken [which I'm not] that's a deciding factor in most peoples conceptions of heaven [definately in mine]. And that whole scenario won't come to pass anyway. Every single human being has their own opinion on what beautiful is. Many of them are very similar, many of them clash horribly.

And even if every last baby in the human race [including all of the babies from third world countries, YOU RETARDS] gets some sort of gene therapy to look towards ONE SINGLE idea of beauty, it doesn't matter, because beauty is an entirely relative concept. If everyone in the world was on what is now the beautiful end of the appearance spectrum, then those who were still closer to ou definition of ugly would become the ugly people of that world, there would just be less differentiation.

So fuck off and let us make the world a more beautiful place.