You would make a great Republican in America. Possibly have your own talk show.
Ron Paul is my favourite politician in the world. If we were electing a world president, I'd vote for him.
C'mon Thork, I spent a whole 30 seconds paraphrasing the article in my OP. The least you could do is spend 5 seconds reading it.
I live in England. I was already fully aware this vote was going to take place weeks ago. I'd already read the article on the BBC about 10 hours before I read your post. I know the 'for arguments' but I don't agree with them. They are just excuses to push on.
I may regret replying to this, but no, they're not doing this for the hell for it. They're doing it to help people with genetic problems have healthy children, as the article clearly explains. Given how important procreation is to you, you ought to be all for this.
That's not how life works. Its a battle of the strong versus the weak. If you have genetic issues ... you're not a very well made animal. Yeah, harsh, but nature is. The suffering of a few saves the suffering of the many. You get a healthy species with a few not so healthy individuals who create genetically damaged children. Now we aren't supposed to rear those children to breed themselves. In any other period they would not survive. Its good we can give them a longer life and a better quality of that life, but its not supposed to be so they can have their own families and pass the same affliction on to more people.
So yes, they can now remove certain genes and replace them with someone else's. Where does that stop? Me and my wife both have brown eyes. Can we have a third person's DNA with blue eyes please? Just that bit, oh go on throw in some blond hair too".
This is right now about disease ... but dress it up however you want, it is eugenics by the back door. First serious disease, later mild conditions, later taller, thinner, better looking, smarter. I would extrapolate that companies will patent 3rd party DNA strings that can be artificially created in a lab and you'll be able to build a baby off the shelf by inserting these bits.
You won't have people ... you have 'property of Google' or whoever buys up all the shares.
This is a landmark decision because you can legally create a human being by artificially taking DNA you select out, and inserting your choice of DNA in. Why my stupid country had to be first to the front of the queue for this 'Frankenstein medicine' I don't know.