It's the future. You'd be more likely to support a law that ____ parents genetically modifying their preborn children to eliminate potential for having sexual fetishes that are particularly unusual or bizarre
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Evidence suggests (but doesn’t prove) there are genetic factors responsible for pedophilia.
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In that instance, I think genetic modification is allowed. Bad for society and, frankly, being pedophilic is probably hard for the individual too.
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That’s actually my fetish and no one else should have to suffer a life of sexual deprivation due to a lack of legislation
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This would enable a level of meddling akin to conversation therapy.
That's to say nothing of the nebulous nature of what individual parents would discern as 'unusual or bizarre'.
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I'd be OK with "hard to satisfy safely and consensually", but I feel like my unusual and bizarre sexual fetishes are a blessing that increases my capacity for joy in life. Making law here seems way too fraught either way to vote on in a Twitter poll :)
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I may be missing the point of the poll, but I find it unlikely that an isolated gene for "bizarre" fetishes exists, so the modification would also affect fetishes and sexuality in a broader way. Make the child asexual, then they won't have any distasteful fetishes. Hooray!
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If we're talking stuff that makes you a serious danger to other people, then allows. For stuff that's just kinda weird and gross, then forbids.
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I'm sure there are genetic alterations that can have large impacts on sexuality, potentially including proclivity to develop fetishes. However, a fetish is the kind of behavior that looks like an extreme smoking gun for an environmentally determined behavior.
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