UK to allow 3-parent babies

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

I see nothing wrong with this. On the contrary, it is another chance given to us by science and modern technology to improve our genes, the lives of our successors/heirs/children, and that of humanity as a whole if this becomes widespread. The possibilities are truly endless; this isn't limited to preventing diseases linked to certain genes. It makes me a bit sad that we were all born before this astounding discovery but it is still a very goof thing that future generations will be able to enjoy this technology's possible benefits. Sure, we'll never achieve perfection as such a thing is humanly-possible but we'll get a bit closer.

Has anyone thought of a potential disadvantage? As an eternal cynic I'd like to know what could possibly go wrong with this procedure.

 

[Simple Man]

'Brave New World', anyone?

Can't see how people can support this idea.

 

[GeroMeroHero]

This will be interesting...
I predict lots of people will be giving their kids blonde hair and blue eyes (since sperm donors with those features get sold out) and then someone will cry racism.
That will be the end of that.

 

[Porfirio Rubirosa]

This will be interesting...
I predict lots of people will be giving their kids blonde hair and blue eyes (since sperm donors with those features get sold out) and then someone will cry racism.
That will be the end of that.

And in a hundred years' time or so we'll realise just how foolish we were; we'll remember the first century of this millennium as humanity's return to mob 'justice' and the century that saw the rise to political correctness and third-/fourth-wave feminism. Or maybe we'll realise our foolishness soon and revert at least some of the damage. The considerable amount of growth this community experienced in that past year gives me hope even if just a little.

 

[Paracelsus]

This whole discussion keeps sending me back to Michael Crichton, and in particular what his mouthpiece David Malcolm had to say about science and unintended consequences in Jurassic Park.

 

[Blobert]

Another implication is that this will make physical sex obsolete and will make it easier to outlaw it.

Society already hates sex. It only tolerates it because of the need to have babies and because it sells.

Although an illusion is created that sex is being popularized to sell consumer goods, but actually marketers prefer people to stay sexless and frustrated in real life.

Now if genetically/mitohondically modified laborotory babies become the norm, it wouldn't be long before all normal sex will be called rape even regardless of consent. Sex might also be declared evil and backwards because it creates "inferior" or even "non-standard" or "non-pattented and registrated genome type" babies.

A Brave New World-like scenario seems far more likely than outlawing sex.

 

[Phoenix]

The point is that if the baby contains '3rd-party DNA', it is not your baby.
The liberal eugenics route is much more ethically sound, since you are just imparting additional selection.

My expectation, if people start modifying their children's DNA, is for the rest of society to start privately investigating and maintaining records of genetically modified people, for the purpose of ostracism.

 

[Exquirenoir]

Outlaw physical sex and call it rape .Now with the introduction of VR porn, sounds the movie Demolition Man . All we need is taco bell to be 1# and an actor president. Crazy shit son

 

[Feisbook Control]

Maybe this could be used to prevent or cure horrible, crippling diseases such as feminism.

 

[freeuser]

The problem is, that it paves the future, for the ultimate caste society. Think about the stratification that this could create. A small elite of humanity at the top that is rich enough to afford this, would produce perfect children. No disease, no congenital disorder, faster, smarter, pretty much flawless. This sounds great. But what about the parents that can´t afford it? Their children would have no chance, at competing against these freaks of nature. This is pretty much genetic hardcore doping.

I know this already happens to a certain degree. People like Lebron James or a Nobel Prize Winner are already superior to the rest. There is nothing wrong with that. But this would turn it into a nightmare. There is no way to compete in a market place, with somebody that is genetically engineered to be perfect if you aren´t yourself engineered .

 

[roberto]

I'd rather make it a criminal offense to try for a baby if you've already had one with Downs or whatever, and then been told you have a 50% chance of the next one being the same.

Don't pop another Downs kid, then come on TV crying about how it's so unfair and that all you need is this technology for everything to be rainbows and kittens. Accept your lot and deal with it. Adopt or something. Anything apart from be so bloody selfish that you will knowingly even risk condemning an innocent child to a life of misery.

Disclaimer- I don't have a parternal bone in my body.

 

[Ocelot]

If you're worried by this development, simply use it as an opportunity to troll progressives hardcore, then they should agitate to have it outlawed for you.

Think about it, if you base every ethical judgement on whether or not consent was involved, then this technology (assuming it works) would remove the only barrier to legitimising father-daughter incest - inbreeding depression. Maybe it's finally time these shitlords checked their outcest privilege.

Have fun.

 

[Hardy Daytona]

To quote Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever: "Why? Why why why why why why why?"

This is just another attempt by humans to control nature.
Last I checked it was doing a pretty good up until the turn of the last century when all of a sudden people decided that they knew better than the system that's been governing the planet for billions of years.

History, evolution and biology have mandated that a child have only 2 parents and for good reason.

This is the part where I have to play devil's advocate.
They claim that the process will help to prevent inherited genetic abnormalities in infants.
Thanks to screening and new technology, science is constantly advancing the boundaries of detection and prevention in the case of such diseases.
But there are some situations where nothing preventative can be done.

In that case, I say book a trip to the clinic and get to work on making a new one.
In the 21st century digital age we're all commodities anyway. Sanctity of life doesn't mean a damn thing anymore.