Would you genetically engineer your future children.

Coriolanus

Yes, I've just watched Gattica.
So, would you? If you would, where would you draw the line? Maybe choose the hair and eye colour and leave the rest up to chance? Remove some genetic predispositions to horrible diseases?

Personally I think if it was available and I had the money I'd do everything that was on the menu.

Chuck Stone

Nevore wrote: »

Personally I think if it was available and I had the money I'd do everything that was on the menu.

You might still end up with a nutter.

Bipolar Joe

I would, to an extent. Apparently there's a larger than 50% chance a lot of mental fuckery stuff is passed on, so I don't want that crap. I would basically make them the exact opposite of me. So the first sentence is a lie, change everything.

rashers10

I would do it only to deal with genetic disorders. But then I guess that could be interpreted very broadly.

up for anything

Yes. To be seen and not heard.

dent

How else are humans going to evolve three asses?

Lone Stone

you can do it now, i saw some documentary on it a while ago, apparently you can even decide what the eye color will be, il have a look and see if i can find it again and post it.

But no i wouldnt unless i knew it was going to be a ginger :eek:

4leto

Yes but only so my ugliness doesn't get passed on,

dirtypanties

Too late!

FunkZ

I'd genetically engineer the kid to be 6 foot tall from the second it tries to make its great escape...

Enjoy giving birth to that girlfriend! :P

Little Miss Lady

Some things are best left to nature...

The King of Moo

I like to think that I wouldn't but if I could afford it I'd probably make them gorgeous geniuses, if my genes somehow didn't accomplish that on their own.

I'd also like to include a trigger phrase like "Laputan Machine" to shut them up or make them sleep automatically if they were annoying me.

Sofiztikated

Just to ensure that they don't have the same condition I have.

There's a 1 in 30000 chance of being born with bladder exstrophy with "norms" (as we call them :pac:) but as I have it, there is a 1 in 70 chance my kids could have it.

While I don't "suffer" with it, I don't want my kids to have to deal with it at all.

Otherwise, let the dice roll.

DjFlin

Hell to the yes. If my parents had given me genetically enhanced laser blasting eyes, I wouldn't have been bullied as much.

TheZohanS

Spiderbaby FTW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAKyokwktsI

4leto

dirtypanties wrote: »

Too late!

Ah **** are you telling me something here:eek:

Teyla Emmagan

Maybe. It would be nice if someone I'm genetically related finally broke the five foot three barrier..

dirtypanties

4leto wrote: »

Ah **** are you telling me something here:eek:

yeah-I have 2 'as nature intended' craaaaazy kids!Can you genetically programme your kids to sleep 12hrs at night?

Because that's the only way I am having any more.

Haven't slept in 3yrs:(

4leto

dirtypanties wrote: »

yeah-I have 2 'as nature intended' craaaaazy kids!Can you genetically programme your kids to sleep 12hrs at night?

Because that's the only way I am having any more.

Haven't slept in 3yrs:(

You don't have to go to those lengths just give them alcohol and night nurse in the evening and you will get loads of sleep.

mattjack

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

Maybe. It would be nice if someone I'm genetically related finally broke the five foot three barrier..

what...? you got five feet...? oh wait..sorry...I,ll get the glasses..

orourkeda

I'd genetically modify my shaft and balls to makes sure none of the little f*ckers are ever conceived

Eve_Dublin

I'd give my daughters the ability to grow beards so they won't grow up with chronic beard envy that I must cope with on a daily basis (banshee-like wail "Why meee.....why meeeeeeee" etc)

4leto

I was reading its next to impossible to do although there is a genetic component to say intelligence there is not a single gene that is responsible there is a list of genes are and how they interact cannot be controlled and never will be.

But who knows.

Redhairedguy

Hell yes. What's life there for if not for tinkering with?

I'd engineer my children to be non-gingers with perfect 20-20 vision and amazing dexterity and agility, then I'd run a company specialising in ninjas, spies, thieves and assassins. I could then clone them if they were ever killed or horribly disfigured. If they were insolent, I'd have their clones kill them and then wipe the clone's memories so they have no recollection of the fact that they are in fact clones.

Lisa8786

Well what are you saying about the kids you might have if you didn't happen to change them in some way. Do you think you could only love a kid because they had a certain eye colour or hair colour or were free of disability? Every child is deserving of an equal amount of love no matter how they look or what they're born with and if you give people the option to change these things the message that comes out is that some are more loveable than others. Pretty sick message in my opinion. Maybe some people shouldn't have kids if that's how they see things.

Morlar

I would not be an early adopter of that kind of technology, but if it was tested and proven to be 100% reliable then I'd probably use it to confirm no genetic disorders or health issues.

Cosmetic issues like height, eye colour, hair colour etc are irrelevant. Physical and Mental Health related only in my view.

smash

I want my next kid to be the hulk!

The_Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8

The song describes a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological inventions gradually dehumanize him.....

Sofiztikated

Lisa8786 wrote: »

Well what are you saying about the kids you might have if you didn't happen to change them in some way. Do you think you could only love a kid because they had a certain eye colour or hair colour or were free of disability? Every child is deserving of an equal amount of love no matter how they look or what they're born with and if you give people the option to change these things the message that comes out is that some are more loveable than others. Pretty sick message in my opinion. Maybe some people shouldn't have kids if that's how they see things.

I'm going to reply to this.

I mentioned in my post about the percentages of my children being born with the same condition I have.

IF I could sort it that my future children didn't have this condition, it'd be brilliant, but as I won't be going down this route, I'll have to take this chance.

Would I love my children any less if they have this condition? No. Not one bit. Would I love my children more if they didn't have it? Nope, never said that either. I would just rather they didn't have any unnecessary hardships to endure.

Don't say you wouldn't say the same, because I call shenanigans if you try.

AnamGlas

No.

Everybody's different, why force them to be what you want them to be?

deathrider

Where would I drw the line? At eye-lazers, I reckon. Adimatium claws- Grand. Super-strenght- deadly! Lightning bolts from his arse- you bet! But no kid of mine is gonna have boring auld eye-lazers!

RichieC

Little Miss Lady wrote: »

Some things are best left to nature...

We are nature

tfitzgerald

The ones I have are perfect so no I would not