I don't think those are comparable. With mate selection, there is a limited supply of ideal mates. Every choice is a bundle of traits, not all of which can be a deciding factor at once. Embryo screening and eventual manipulation inch us towards traits being independent knobs.
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Ubiquity of genetic correlations mean that embryos are also package deals to considerable degree. Indeed the reason adults are package deals is the same reason. No difference there.
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Embryos are a package deal, but getting a few dozen "dice rolls" per child to choose from makes possible greater selection on multiple dimensions. On one hand, if framed as "reject the worst ones outright", maybe not too bad. But "keep only the best" sounds more sinister.
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Parents already try to optimize their kids in basically every way. Why the double standards? Because parenting doesn't work and genetic selection does?
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There are people that think sending kids to private schools shouldn't be possible, or even that you shouldn't read to your kids because you're giving them an advantage. They see this as a way for kids of rich people to get even more of an advantage over the plebs.
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If the left accepted the impact of genes on IQ and group differences in IQ they would probably make it so only people from lower IQ groups would be allowed to use this technology until everyone was equal.
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They're just laying the ground for eliminating gingers from the gene pool.
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Or making everyone ginger. It could either way really.
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Only if gingers are in charge. And how could that happen.
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Asian ginger fetishism.
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I had no idea that existed, and now I despise Asia.
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It is so not the same
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So strange that the scary designer baby future that journalists like Amy Dockser Marcus are always kvetching about is usually full of white blue-eyed babies like the one in the photo. Doesn't sound scary to me!
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No this will result in a caste system based on eye color watch Gattaca
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inb4 is it ethical to reproduce
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